Monthly Archives: February 2009

This series of materials is designed to provide simple information for teachers and student on what CC is, how to find CC material and the best way to attribute CC material.

The fact sheets have been developed by the National Copyright Unit in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Other materials are developed by Creative Commons Australia and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, or as marked.

Fact Sheets

General Info

• What is Creative Commons?
• How to Attribute Creative Commons Licensed Material
• How to Find Creative Commons Licensed Material

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 Creative Commons AU has released redistributable information packs which provide an overview of specific topics. The following packs are available:

About the Creative Commons licences

* [Creative Commons Licences Explained](/materials/licencesexplainedcontentcreatorsinfopack.pdf)
* [Quick Guide to the Creative Commons Licences](/factsheets/cc-licences)
* [Creative Commons Licensing Flowchart](/factsheets/licensing-flowchart)
* [Benefits of Creative Commons](/materials/Benefits_of_CC_08.pdf)
* [Using the Creative Commons metadata](/marking/examples)

About Creative Commons content

* [How to Find Creative Commons Licensed Material](/infopacks/findingmaterial)
* [Quick Guide to Creative Commons Resources](/materials/CC_Web_Resources.pdf)

[Pooling Ideas help sheets](/infopacks/poolingideas)

* [What is Creative Commons?](/materials/whatiscc.pdf)
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Pooling Ideas is now officially closed for 2009! For information on the finalists and winners see here.

The Creative Commons Clinic, Creative Commons Australia, ABC Pool and the Ideas Festival invite you to take part in a festival of collaborative innovation – and win fabulous prizes while you’re at it!

Pooling Ideas is now officially closed for 2009! For information on the finalists and winners see here.

When?
2-23 March 2009.

How?
Join Pool and get uploading (and downloading).

What’s happening?
Digital technology has changed the way we create and share our ideas. A world of music, literature, art and video is now available at our fingertips, and it’s all ours to play with, remix and manipulate. But what does this mean for our ideas of creativity and originality, yours and mine?

Over the next few weeks, we invite you to creatively interpret the theme We are what we share, and upload your creation to Pool. It’s free and there are no time limits or format requirements. Just tag your work we are what we share when you upload.

Mash up a film, tweak an artwork, remix a poem. It can be as simple as changing the colours in a photograph or as complex as remixing hundreds of different sounds into a single song.

The entry judged best by the panel of experts wins an internship with ABC Radio National to co-produce an episode of the Night Air. Select entries will be showcased at the Ideas Festival and on the Pool and Creative Commons Australia websites, and discussed at the Ideas We are what we share seminar at the State Library of Queensland on Saturday 28 March, 5-6.30pm.
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SoundCulture Archive_10 ~ Sydney 1991 by Soundculture

The ABC’s collaborative media site, Pool, has made another Australian first.

To celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, Pool has launched its Gene Pool call out by posting a recording from the ABC archives of genetics professor Steve Jones talking about Darwin’s life and work. This is only the first of a series of ABC archival materials, all based loosely around the theme of evolution and mutation, that will be released online as part of the project.

What’s exciting about Gene Pool is that the materials are being released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial licence.
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