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Creative Commons Research
CC Mapping
Allied to the Creative Commons Clinic we are undertaking a mapping exercise of who is using CC in Australia. Further external funding is currently being sought for this project.
Unlocking the Potential
Allied to the Creative Commons Clinic this project is undertaking research and documenting case studies on the use of CC as part of creative innovation in Australia and in other parts of the world. In particular this project will engage with the questions raised by the recently released DCITA/SILG, Unlocking the Potential (2005) report about the role of CC in stimulating creative productivity in Australia .
Open Innovation and Access to Knowledge
In August 2006 we hosted Daniel Ravicher Legal Counsel for the Software Freedom Law Centre in New York. He headlined a roundtable event that considered the notion of open innovation and how this might impact on creativity and future business models. The output of that seminar (including a series of podcasts) is housed on the web at www.ip.qut.edu.au Participants at the round table included Angela Beesley of Wikipedia, Terry Cutler, Professor Greg Hearn (QUT) and Professor Mark Dodgson (UQ).
Professor Fitzgerald was invited and expenses met by the conference organisers to present at the Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K) at Yale University in April 2006 on the topic of “CC Licencing”.
CC in Government – Creative Archives
This project considers the application of CC styled licencing to government and publicly owned copyright. The aim is to free up the large archives of publicly funded “raw materials” in order to sponsor further creativity. The BBC Creative Archive is a role model in this instance. We are also keen to seed a spin off project that would promote the creation of a “free culture” web interface for Australia music and film from the late 19th and early 20th century that is in the public domain.
Creative Commons Clinic
The internet and associated digital technologies mean that quality information and knowledge can be communicated across the globe, by even the most basic user, cheaply and instantly. Enormous potentials exist to access and build information and knowledge networks.
Professor Lawrence Lessig at Stanford University (USA) and a number of his colleagues were frustrated by the fact that technology offered so much but that negotiability of copyright material in law was so cumbersome. Lessig’s vision was for a space in the virtual world where people could share and reuse copyright material without fear of being sued i.e. the “Creative Commons”. For this to happen, copyright owners had to agree or give permission for their material to be shared in advance through a generic licence.
QUT is the lead agent for the Australian Creative Commons Project under the direction of QUT’s Deputy Vice Chancellor Tom Cochrane and Professor Brian Fitzgerald in Law. The Creative Commons Clinic is a project of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (CCI), which aims to generate and disseminate knowledge on the Creative Commons project, in line with the CCI’s key outcomes.
 Continue reading Down with DRM video contest announcedFreeculture.org has announced the Down with DRM video contest in conjunction with Defective by Design’s October 3rd Declared “Day Against DRM”. Enter your short, anti-DRM themed, video, animation or remix for a chance to win a portable digital VCR or have your video aired on DefectiveByDesign.org. Preference will be given to submissions under free content licenses such as Creative Commons BY-SA. More details are available at the Free Culture website Continue reading ccHost 3.0The Creative Commons head office in San Francisco, along with the Creative Commons Developer Community, has today released an updated version of ccHost, its Open Source web-based media sharing software. ccHost provides a range of packages that anyone may download that enable collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media material on-line using the different Creative Commons licenses and metadata. This comes on the heals of ccHost winning the Linux Journal Linux World Expo Award for “Best Open Source Solution”. Congratulations ccHost! More details on the release are available [here](http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6051) Continue reading We went to Rio . . .
The annual iCommons Summit was held this year in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, from 23-25 June – and, thanks partly to the generous assistance of the iCommons organisation, CC-AU team members Brian Fitzgerald and Jessica Coates (myself) were able to attend. The Summit brought together a wide range of individuals with an interest in the open access and commons movements worldwide for an exchange of ideas, information and enthusiasm. The three day event provided a great opportunity for us to learn about other open access projects worldwide and was extremely productive, from Brian’s presentation on CC-AU’s experiences with the Australian collecting societies to the first meeting of the newly formed Asia Commons. It was, in fact, so jam packed that we barely managed to make it outside to see the famous beaches right outside our doors – though we did squeeze in time to catch Australia’s World Cup triumph over Croatia. Read our full report on the conference here Photo: Jessica Coates (second left), Brian Fitzgerald (far right), iCommons Summit 2006 23-25 June 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil It’s a fair bet that any conference that takes place at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, is going to attract a healthy number of attendees. And with over 250 participants from countries as diverse as Slovenia, Guatemala and Malawi, the iCommons Summit 2006 certainly met this expectation. But what was more impressive about the iSummit was not its ability to attract registrants, but its ability to keep them. Despite the world famous surf, sand and caipirinhas right outside its doors, almost every session of the Summit was full of enthusiastic participants eager to discuss the latest developments in the Creative Commons and open access movements worldwide. For those who are unfamiliar with iCommons it’s an independent organisation incubated by Creative Commons, with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open content, access to knowledge, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. iCommons focuses particularly on projects that encourage collaboration across borders and communities, and promote the tools, models and practices that facilitate universal participation in the cultural and knowledge domains. The Summit provided a forum for those with an interest in the commons movement to come together with other open access enthusiasts to discuss issues, goals and joint projects. And enthusiasm there was a-plenty, with conversing participants clogging the windowless halls of the conference venue (Copacabana Marriott’s basement) before, after and during each of the sessions. This is despite the fact the conference was (bravely) being run over the crucial mid-point of the FIFA World Cup in a country that, deservedly, has a reputation for being the most football-obsessed in the world.  |