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Professor Brian Fitzgerald re-appointed to Advisory Council on Intellectual Property for a second term

Professor Brian Fitzgerald has been appointed for a second three year term as a member of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP). Professor Fitzgerald, who has been co-Project Lead for Creative Commons Australia since 2005 and a member of … Continue reading

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New search tool by CC Korea – Let’s CC!

CC Korea has recently released a great search tool called Let’s CC, which is available at http://eng.letscc.net. It allows a single search to be carried out across a range of CC-licensed images, sounds, videos and documents available on portals such … Continue reading

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The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

“The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”, edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (CC France legal lead) and Juan Carlos De Martin, is now available under a CC BY licence. As described by Dulong de Rosnay: This book … Continue reading

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QUT’s farewell for Professor Brian Fitzgerald

  Colleagues, former students and members of the legal profession are invited to join us to celebrate Brian’s achievements at QUT and to farewell him as he leaves to take up his new role as the foundation Executive Dean of Law … Continue reading

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ road to Open Access

At the OAIC 2011 Information Policy Conference held in Canberra on 15 November 2011, Siu-Ming Tam of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) presented on the topic ‘The Road to Open Access – Story of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’.

Dr Tam’s presentation charted ABS’s journey from the implementation of its “User Pays” in 1985, to its current use of the CC BY licence. Continue reading

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