Jennifer Foreshew, Commons simplifies net rights, Australian, January 18, 2005. On the launch of the Australian version of Creative Commons. Excerpt: 'An Australian version of a legally binding licence that allows governments and artists to share information on the internet will be launched today. Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation established in the US to simplify online copyright, has approved an Australian licence. The Australian Creative Commons licence will be launched at a conference at Queensland University of Technology and will be accessible at creativecommons.org later this month. QUT has been the lead agency for the Australian Creative Commons project...."Once you know the material has the Creative Commons badge and the licence, you know that you can go and use it without fear of being sued for taking other people's material without their permission," QUT law school head Brian Fitzgerald said.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/17/2005 11:42:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
