Monthly Archives: April 2012

Australian Government IP Manual and Guidelines on Licensing PSI

The Australian Government has recently released two documents which implement the Government’s Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies: Guidelines on Licensing Public Sector Information for Australian Government Agencies; and Australian Government Intellectual Property Manual (“IP Manual”). Both … Continue reading

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NY Times highlights the significance OER

An article in the New York Times, Building Schools Out of Clicks, Not Bricks, has recently emphasised the importance of the growing Open Education Resources (OER) movement, and its potential to close the knowlege divide between different regions around the … 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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New publication on OER in China

Professor Chunyan Wang (Renmin University of China and Creative Commons China Mainland) and Professor Guodong Zhao (Peking University) have authored a book titled Open Educational Resources in the People’s Republic of China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects for Development. It is … 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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