We’ve previously blogged about the Emergency 2.0 Wiki, which was developed by Eileen Culleton and a team of volunteers in response to the floods and cyclones experienced in eastern Australia in 2011. Emergency 2.0 is ‘a free global resource for using social…
Attribution of Flickr images
Attribution is a core condition in all six Creative Commons licences. A question which we are commonly asked is “How can I properly attribute a CC-licensed work when I use it?” We explain the Attribution requirement in our factsheet (available…
etcc: remixing the visual arts
In 2010, Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, ccAustralia and etcc project coordinators Benjamin Reeve, Skye Reeve and Elliott Bledsoe received funding in the inaugural round of the Creative Commons Catalyst Grants. The succesful application…
CC’s 10th Birthday celebrations
From 7 – 16 December, Creative Commons is celebrating 10 years of the Creative Commons licences, which have enabled the sharing and reuse of roughly half a billion creative, educational, scientific and governmental works. CC Affiliates around the world are…
Queensland Police data website licensed under CC BY
The Queensland Police Service is again leading the way as a government agency, recently launching the myPolice Data website (http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/data/). myPolice Data currently provides statistical information on the number and rates of reported offences between 1997 – 2012. This data…
Geoscience Australia licenses Landsat 8 satellite images under CC BY
The terms of the new Landsat 8 satellite agreement between the governments of the United States and Australia acknowledge that Geoscience Australia (GA), like its senior partner the US Geological Survey, is committed to making more spatial data more readily…
Creative Commons and the Digital Economy
A free seminar series presented by Creative Commons Australia for those working in education, research, creative, cultural and government sectors, and members of the general community who want to know more about the Creative Commons (CC) licences, how they work…
CC’s licence chooser
CC has launched a new licence chooser, available at http://creativecommons.org/choose/. It’s a great development, as it makes the process of choosing a CC licence clearer and more intuitive. This new licence chooser (on the right) features the same questions in…
Geoscience Australia to license Landsat 8 images under CC BY
The Landsat 8 satellite, to be launched in early 2013, is expected to be fully operational by May or June of that year. Once it begins capturing images and beaming them back, Geoscience Australia (GA) will publish them online for…
4 million CC licensed videos on YouTube
It’s been a year since YouTube launched its CC video library, and since then, users have added 40 years worth of video under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. From 25 July 2012, users can opt for future videos…