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Free Public Seminar: Creative Commons and Innovation

Creative Commons increasingly underpins innovation, engagement and growth in various areas, including government, education and research. This seminar will build on our previous seminar series ‘Creative Commons and the Digital Economy’ and provide an update on CC developments across these … Continue reading

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Open Access Week

This week (22 – 29 October) is Open Access Week, and events are being held around the world in celebration. In Australia, an Open Scholarship: Research and Publication symposium will be held by the Deakin University Library, at Deakin’s Burwood … Continue reading

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Creative Commons and the Digital Economy

Creative Commons Australia, through its stewardship of the Creative Commons licences in Australia, plays a leading role in enabling copyright to be actively managed to give effect to Open Access initiatives. Since Creative Commons was launched in Australia in 2005, … Continue reading

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Geoscience Australia to license Landsat 8 images under CC BY

The Landsat 8 satellite, to be launched in early 2013, is expected to be fully operational by May or June of that year. Once it begins capturing images and beaming them back, Geoscience Australia (GA) will publish them online for … Continue reading

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Increasing support for Open Access to research

Elliott Harmon of Creative Commons, in this recent blog post, highlights a few initiatives calling for Open Access to research. One such example is a Washington Post opinion piece by Matt Cooper and Elizabeth Wiley. Cooper and Wiley, from the … Continue reading

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