Recently, the Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program at QUT hosted an event examining ‘Open Education and the Future of Publishing Business Models.’ The day feature two parts; interactive workshops on Open Education and Licensing, and a panel event…
Creative Commons Australia partners with Australasian Open Access Strategy Group
I am delighted to announce that Creative Commons Australia has formed an ongoing affiliation and partnership with the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG). Over the past year, the AOASG has changed its focus and its name from being purely…
International Open Access Week 2015
This week is International Open Access Week.
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…
Increasing support for Open Access to research
Elliott Harmon of Creative Commons, in this recent blog post, highlights a few initiatives calling for Open Access to research. One such example is a Washington Post opinion piece by Matt Cooper and Elizabeth Wiley. Cooper and Wiley, from the…
Paris OER Declaration formally adopted
The 2012 World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress was hosted by UNESCO in Paris, on 20-22 June 2012. In addition to showcasing the world’s best practices in OER policies, initiatives and experts and celebrating the 10th anniversary of the 2002…
Nature Publishing Group introduces CC BY option
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that it will introduce a CC Attribution (BY) as a licensing option for its authors publishing in Scientific Reports. The CC BY licence will be available to authors sumitting articles on or after 1…
World Bank Open Access Policy
The World Bank is adopting an Open Access Policy on 1 July 2012, which applies to work carried out by Bank staff members and outside research funded by the Bank. The aim of the policy is to support ‘the free…
Date claimer: Creative Commons for You, and for Government
Can’t get enough of CC? We will be making our way down to Canberra in about a month, so make sure you mark it in your diaries!
A free public seminar on the topic CC for You, and for Government, will be presented by Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Neale Hooper and Cheryl Foong on Friday, 4 November 2011, 9.00am – 3.30pm at National Library of Australia (Theatre at Lower ground floor), Parkes Place, ACT.
We want to make this event meaningful for you. If you have encountered any practical or operational issues in your personal or working environments, please contact Cheryl Foong at cheryl.foong@qut.edu.au. We will do our best to accomodate your interests.
For more details, updates and to RSVP, please visit the event page.
Credits—Photo: ‘The National Library of Australia and the Canberra Balloon Festival, March 2011‘ by Grey Nomad Australia, licensed under CC BY 2.0 Generic.
“Yes, We’re Open!”: Platform Journal Special Issue Launched!
The team at ccAustralia and the Editorial Board and team at PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication are very pleased to announce the publication of the “Yes, we are open!” special edition issue. Guest edited by ccAustralia staffer Elliott Bledsoe, and former staffer Jessica Coates, this issue presents submissions by postgraduate students around the world working in media studies or related fields which critically examine the legal, social and technical parameters of open source, open content and open access.
Jess and I received a number of really interesting submission exploring the question we posed in the abstract: why open? We open the issue with an interview with Esther Wojcicki, Vice-Chair of Creative Commons, to discuss the importance of teaching ‘open’ in schools. Rachel Cobcroft follows with an reflection on the development of the international Creative Commons Case Studies initiative. Cobcroft’s piece examines the progress of open content licensing; identifies models of implementation and licensing trends across industry sectors as diverse as music, government, wikis and fashion; and, perhaps most importantly, explores individual motivations for the adoption of open philosophies.
Credits—Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘Untitled‘ by pheezy, CC BY 2.0 Generic.