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CC Korea translates Gov 2.0 Taskforce Report
The Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce, released under a CC Attribution 2.5 Australia licence in 2010, has since been translated into Korean.
The translation project began as an inspired effort by a team of CC Korea volunteers.
Credits— Screenshot of CC Korea site. Website licensed under CC BY 2.0 Korea.
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Australian Dress Register an open closet to our history
Once again, our Australian cultural institutions are showing their resourcefulness in making the most of web 2.0 technology to share historical information with the public.
The Australian Design Register, an initiative of the Powerhouse Museum and several other historical and cultural institutions,
Credits—Photo: Australian Dress Register – 19th century convict jacket by Powerhouse Museum, CC BY NC 3.0 Au
Emergency information wiki launched under Creative Commons
In late 2010/early 2011 the State of Queensland was affected by two significant natural disasters – the 2010/11 floods and Cyclone Yasi. You might remember that the ccAustralia office had to close as a result of the floods. During these incidences, … Continue reading
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CC-licensing now possible on Pozible
Australia’s first crowd funding platform, Pozible (nee Fundbreak), are always looking for ways to make their platform more useful for project creators. That’s why they rolled out a series of new rights management options for projects starting yesterday. Now Pozible project creators can make content related to their crowd funding proposals on the site available under Creative Commons licences.
Project creators on Pozible now have a ‘License Option’ as part of their project creation process. They can elect ‘all rights reserved’ or they can apply a CC licence using Pozible’s very stylish (yet functional) licence chooser.
Credits—Photo: Money‘ by Maestro_AU, CC BY 2.0 Generic. Continue reading
Posted in Arts and Creativity, Audio, ccAustralia, Design, Images, Text, Video Tagged crowd funding, crowdsourcing, Pozible Leave a comment
ACMI generates rights literacy by releasing quality media products
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image joins a growing list of Australian and international arts institutions making resources available for reuse and remixing under Creative Commons. In September last year ACMI launched Generator, an online creative studio space for students and teachers to access and engage with screen content. This week ACMI expanded on its commitment to teaching screen literacy through dynamic programs by relicensing the downloadable media resources on Generator under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical 3.0 Australia licence. The 1000+ media products available in the Free Media Library go beyond being passive teaching aids – they are now part of the wider commons of legally reuseable content.
The ACMI has spent over 20 years delivering dynamic screen literacy programs that create deep and engaging learning spaces for young people to be active producers of screen content. ACMI’s Generator project was initiated as a concerted effort by the Centre to address changes in teaching screen media. It is the outcome of funding from the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to develop premium content for the FUSE Portal, a State-funded repository of content and resources to help teachers Find, Use and Share quality Education resources. To further that aim, ACMI looked to CC.
Credits—Photo: ‘Chunky‘ by Yun Huang Yong, CC BY 2.0 Generic.
Get your floaties on, the (ABC) Pool has reopened
The roller door has been raised, the turnstiles unlocked, and everyone is invited to take a dip in the all new ABC Pool website. The new site boasts all kinds of new functionality and usability. Bomb dive your way into the site’s 11,000+ contributions with the site’s new structure, making it much easier to see uploaded content, pool contributors, collaborative projects and opportunities to get your content onto ABC websites, radio and even television. And now you can easily follow people and projects to help you keep up with your favorite pool-side punters and comment on pretty much everything on the site.
While we love the new 2.0 functionality, probably the most exciting addition (as far as ccAustralia is concerned anyway :p) is the ability to search for Pool content published under a Creative Commons licence. A much-awaited addition, users can now use the advanced search to find CC-licensed content by keyword using a drop-down menu that will return results under a specific type of CC licence. Better still is the ability to limit your results further by designating the type of media you’re looking for too!
Credits—Photo: Screenshot of ABC Pool website. Incorporates ‘Kiss me where?‘ by Kate Gauld, CC BY-NC 3.0 Unported.
Posted in Arts and Creativity, Audio, Design, Education, Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, Images, Text, Video Tagged ABC Pool, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, International Urban Screens Association, My Tribe, social media, social networks, social web, user-centered design, user-generated content 1 Comment
News you can use
YouCommNews, Australia’s first croudsourced/funded news site, has published its first people-powered story today. “In search of non-toxic housing for health’s sake“, (pitched and) written by Toula Mantis, chronicles Katherine McIntosh’s extreme case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. With funding received from 17 people (totaling $878), Mantis was able to research and write an article about McIntosh’s chemical sensitivities. It also made possible the production of a complimentary video that accompanies the story.
Running on platform developed by US crowd news service Spot.us, YouCommNews aims to introduce the concept to Australia. The project hopes to engage members of the public in a more active role in the reporting process. This investment is multifaceted; including an investment in the content, by aligning with and financially supporting a pitch and by suggesting story ideas they would like to see reported on.
Credits—Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘Stack of News Papers‘ by ♥ Cishore™ – busy, CC BY 2.0 Generic.
First CC-licensed book in Australia wants you to cut it up
Remember back in October 2007 we wrote a post about the first CC-licensed book published in Australia (that we know about anyway)? Tristan Clarke published his first book, Stick this in your memory hole, with Aduki Independent Press under an Australian Attribution-Noncommercial licence. Both the physical book and the digital version were under the licence, meaning you were free to share and remix his book as long as you weren’t making money from your reuse.
In the spirit of (continuing) sharing, Aduki is encouraging people to remix the work. From the Aduki blog post:
As we reach the remnants of the book’s stock and want to make space for new titles we thought it was about time we let the book out into the wild and gave the public an opportunity to embrace CC and remix culture and attempt to remix a book.
This could take a variety of forms… You could remix the actual words within the book, or you could remix the physical book itself… That is up to you…
Credits—Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘Scissors‘ by Rhian vK, CC BY 2.0 Generic.
Posted in Text Tagged Aduki Independent Press, CC BY-NC Aus, literature, remix, Stick this in your memory hole, Tristan Clarke Leave a comment
“Yes, We’re Open!”: A Special Issue of Platform Journal – Call for Papers Reminder
A quick reminder for all the commons-based postgraduate researchers out there – abstracts are due this Monday for the special “Yes, We’re Open!” issue of Platform.
The issue, guest edited by the ccAustralia and ccClinic teams, will focus on the mainstreaming of “open”. With Mozilla Firefox pushing towards a 25% share of the web browser market and the number of Creative Commons licensed works reaching more than 250 million in 2009, perhaps it is time to ask, ‘Is “open” the new black?’
Credits—Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘Untitled‘ by pheezy, CC BY 2.0 Generic.
Platform Special Issue Call for Papers Extended
The deadlines for the “Yes, We’re Open!” Special Issue of PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication have been extended. The new dates are:
17 May 2010: Abstracts/Proposals (500-800 words)
5 July 2010: Full Papers (6,000-8,000 words, including 200 word abstracts and six keywords)
Credits—Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘Untitled‘ by pheezy, CC BY 2.0 Generic.
Posted in Arts and Creativity, Education, Text Tagged Elliott Bledsoe, Jessica Coates, Platform, University of Melbourne, Yes We're Open! Leave a comment
Another gong for CC-licensed news service ProPublica
More congratulations are in order for Creative Commons-licensed news service ProPublica. This time, ccAustralia congratulates ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink who received the much-coveted Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Continue reading
“Yes, We’re Open!”: A Special Issue of Platform Journal
Jessica Coates and Elliott Bledsoe from the Creative Commons Clinic at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation are guest editing a special issue of PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication, a biannual open-access online graduate journal published by the Media and Communications Program at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
Credits—Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘Untitled‘ by pheezy, CC BY 2.0 Generic.
CC-licensed reportage wins prestigious investigative journalism prize
ccAustralia extends our congratulations to T Christian Miller, a senior reporter with Creative Commons-licensed news service ProPublica. Miller was awarded the 2010 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. The prize, which is administered by the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, has been running for 21 years and is worth $35 000 (USD) in prize money! Continue reading
Posted in Arts and Creativity, Text Tagged Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, CC BY-NC-ND, Doug Smith, Francine Orr, LA Times, Los Angeles Times, news organisations, ProPublica, Selden Ring Award, T Christian Miller, The Washington Post, University of Southern California Leave a comment
Media 2010 Al Jazeera seminar
UPDATE 15/02/2010: Due to high interest the Media 2010 Satellite Seminar will now be held a the University of Technology, Sydney. Please see below for full venue details.
As part of Media 2010, X|Media|Lab and Creative Commons Australia invite you to join Moeed Ahmad, Head of New Media at Al Jazeera in conversation with Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Project Lead of Creative Commons Australia and Rami Olwan, Project Lead of Creative Commons Jordan to discuss free and open models of content management in the digital media environment.
Thursday 18 February, 12.00 – 1.00 pm
UTS Law moot court, UTS: Law
Block B, B, University of Technology, Sydney
Crn Quay Street and Ultimo Road, Haymarket, Sydney (Google map).
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