Monthly Archives: August 2009

now THIS is a pub for Robin and TY! by robstephaustralia

For all the budding photographers from Queensland, or who have any photos of Queensland – the State Library of Queensland wants to hear from you.

As part of Queensland’s Q150 celebrations, the State Library is running a project – Storylines: Q150 digital stories – which aims to create three collaborative digital stories based on the themes Big things, Floods and Pubs. And they’re looking for photographs to populate them.
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I wonder if The Lifted Brow, one of Australia’s most exciting literary journals, knew they were hosting an open music showcase when they planned their Electric Palace event this Thursday in Brisbane? With those crazy kids it doesn’t really matter if it was by design or serendipity. Two of the three act line-up encourage reuse of their musical works.

Melbournian pop-prince Talkshow Boy (MySpace, CC case studies wiki), purveyor of “complicated electronic new pop songs” and proprietor of the open music microlabel Pocketclock, releases his entire discography under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic licence. Brisbane local support Joel Saunders (MySpace, Archive.org) (performing with Crazy Hearse) also makes his music available for reuse; his album Think Not On me is on Archive.org under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.1 Australia licence. And hey, two out of three ain’t bad, right?
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The Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, the Creative Commons Clinic and Creative Commons Australia invite you to a free workshop and discussion forum

Opening Australia’s Archives

National Library of Australia
King Edward Terrace, Parkes, Canberra
25 August 2009, 11:30am-5:00pm

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