It is my great pleasure to announce the publication of 'Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons', a collection of essays on open content licensing and the Creative Commons, edited by Creative Commons Australia's own project lead, Professor Brian Fitzgerald.

Drawing on the proceedings of the QUT conference of the same name in early 2005, the book brings together papers by more than 30 leading experts, including CC founder Professor Lawrence Lessig and Futurist Richard Neville, on the internet, copyright and the importance of open access to knowledge, from an Australian perspective.

The book is available for purchase in hardcopy form from Sydney University Press. It is also available for download under a Creative Commons Australia Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives licence from QUT's ePrints Archive. Individual articles can be downloaded from the University of Sydney's eScholarship Repository.

More information on the book and its contents is available from here