Creative Commons for Government

QUT have provided a "CC & Government Guide: Using Creative Commons 3.0 Australia Licences on Government Copyright Materials". This follows the seminar on government use of open access at Parliament House last month (which I spoke at). Presenters slides from the seminar are also available.

Abstract

This guide explains how copyright law applies to Australian government material, how copyright can be managed to facilitate beneficial open access practices by government, how CC licences can be used to achieve open access to government material, and provides practical step-by-step guidance for agencies and their officers on licensing and use of government copyright materials under CC 3.0 Australia licences.

Contents

1 Who should read this?3
2 Government Material / Public Sector Information 4
3 Intellectual Property Policies and Standards5
4 Open Access6
5 Copyright 8
5.1 Copyright ownership 17
5.2 The rights of copyright owners 21
5.3 Copyright licensing 22
5.4 Why a copyright-based licensing approach?23
5.5 Creative Commons Public Domain Tools26
5.5.1 Creative Commons Zero (CC0)27
5.5.2 Public Domain Mark (PDM) 27
5.5.3 CC0 and PDM28
5.6 Current licensing practices 28
6 Enabling Open Access: Creative Commons 30
6.1 Open (content) licensing 30
6.2 Creative Commons licences 31
6.3 How Creative Commons licences operate 34
6.4 Advantages of Creative Commons licensing 37
6.5 Changes introduced by version 3.0 of the CC licences 42
6.6 Legal application: How to use Creative Commons? 45
6.7 Technical application: How to apply Creative Commons? 62
7 Final checklist 72
8 Factsheets 73
9 Further information 81
10 Appendices 82
Appendix I: Intellectual Property Policies and Standards 82
Appendix II: Which CC Licence is right for me? 87
Appendix III: CC Legal Code, Attribution 3.0 Australia licence 88
Appendix IV: Table 1 – Creative Commons 3.0 Australia Licences – Minimum Markings,
Copyright Licensing Statement and Attribution Statement 93

From: CC & Government Guide: Using Creative Commons 3.0 Australia Licences on Government Copyright Materials, Fitzgerald, Anne M. and Hooper, Neale and Foong, Cheryl, QUT, November 2010

Open Access at ANU

Greetings from Parliament House in Canberra, where the seminar "Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector: Open Access to Knowledge, Culture and Public Sector Information (PSI)". Colin Steele, former ANU Librarian talked on issues with creative commons for research publishing. He expressed concerns over the effects of the new Excellence in Research for Australia scheme (ERA) on open access.

I gave a five minute impromptu talk after Colin, on how I use Creative Commons licensing for teaching. I started by explaining how ANU now accepts that course material can be released under a Creative Commons licence, as part of its open access policy. Then I detailed how I use a web search to find avialable open access material for teaching. In the case of training Australian Government employees and contractors, it is very useful to have HTML based government policy documents and manuals. This way students can work directly with the latest material. I forgot to mention how easy it is now to use web based material in e-learning systems and to create e-books. I will be teaching this in January 2011, at ANU: COMP7420: Electronic Data Management.

Australian Public Service Transitioning to Creative Commons

Greetings from Parliament House in Canberra, where the seminar "Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector" is on. Helen Daniels, Assistant Secretary, Copyright Law Branch, Attorney-General’s Department is outlining the "New Intellectual Property Guidelines and the Role of Agencies". The default will now be that government material is released with a Creative Commons "by" licence. Previously AGs administered a central register of licences for specific government documents. Under the new policy, agencies need to decide if material should not be CC, when it is created. So the AGs main task is to educate agency staff as to what to do. There is "Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies" on the AGs web site. More material will be released in December. I hope to be able to use this material in teaching the ANU course COMP7420: Electronic Data Management from January 2011.

Electronic Records Management Needed for ABC Pool

Greetings from Parliament House in Canberra, where the seminar "Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector" is on. Sherre DeLys, Founder/Executive Producer, ABC Pool, just mentioned they have run out of storage. She said that they will now need to work out how to remove duplicated data and how to delete what was no longer needed. The ABC 2004-2007 Corporate Plan had the target to "Establish and implement a Corporation-wide records management system that meets legislative requirements.". The ABC 2007 Annual Report stated that this had been achieved. Pool may not be able to use the same corporate system, but should be able to obtain advice from the records management professionals in the ABC and use similar techniques and standards. Or they could enrol in my course in January 2011, at ANU: COMP7420: Electronic Data Management. ;-)

Wordpress plugin for museum content

Greetings from Parliament House in Canberra, where the seminar "Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector" is on. Seb Chan, Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies, Powerhouse Museum, just mentioned they will be releasing a Wordpress plugin to allow metadata from the musium collection to be automatically included in blog posts. They also have been participating in the Museum Metadata Exchange (MME) project. He gave an an example of a possible mash-up would be to include historical photos from the museum with development application to the Mosman Council.

Sydney Android Rangers

Greetings from Parliament House in Canberra, where the seminar "Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector" is on. Bernard de Broglio, Internet Coordinator, Mosman Municipal Council just explained how their council rangers will be issued with Google Android smart phones next week.

Hansard in e-Book Format

Greetings from Parliament House in Canberra, where the seminar "Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector: Open Access to Knowledge, Culture and Public Sector Information (PSI)". Roxanne Missingham, Australian Parliamentary Librarian, discussed the use of Creative Commons licensing for parliamentary materials. She also mentioned in passing that there had been numerous recent requests for Hansard (the record of Parliament) in e-book format. This is driven by the availability of the Apple iPad. The EPUB e-book format is based on HTML and so it would be relatively simple to produce as a by-product of a web based Hansard. This is something I could cover in my course in January 2011, at ANU: COMP7420: Electronic Data Management.

Creative Commons from Parliament House

Greetings from Parliament House in Canberra, where the seminar "Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector: Open Access to Knowledge, Culture and Public Sector Information (PSI)" just started. Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, was to open the seminar, but is in an extended Senate session on the National Broadband Network (NBN). This makes the seminar topic of access to information very timely, as to get maximum value out of the NBN, the community needs access to information carried on it.

Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology, introduced, Professor Anne Fitzgerald (his sister and also from Queensland University of Technology), as the first speaker. She mentioned that ANU has released an open access policy, also the Declaration of Open Government, by Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation (16 July 2010).

Later speakers planned are:

10:40am - 11:00am	Neale Hooper, Queensland University of Technology	Creative Commons and Government
Case Studies: public sector
11:00am - 11:20am	Donna Nicholson, A/g Assistant Statistician, Integrated Collections & Dissemination Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics	Case Study: Australian Bureau of Statistics
11:20am - 11:40am	Roxanne Missingham, Australian Parliamentary Librarian	Case Study: Australian Parliament
11:40am -12:00noon	Bernard de Broglio, Internet Coordinator, Mosman Municipal Council	Case Study: Mossman Municipal Council, Sydney
12noon-1pm	Lunch
Case Studies: educational, cultural and creative
1:00pm -1:20pm	Seb Chan, Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies, Powerhouse Museum	Case Study: Powerhouse Museum
1:20pm - 1:40pm	Sherre DeLys, Founder/Executive Producer, ABC Pool	Case Study: ABC Pool
Implementing Open Access
1:40pm - 2:00pm	Colin Steele, Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University	Creative Commons in research and education
2:00pm - 2:20pm	Richard Best, Legal Advisor, NZ State Services Commission	New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing Framework (NZGOAL)
2:20pm - 2:40pm	Helen Daniels, Assistant Secretary, Copyright Law Branch, Attorney-General’s Department	New Intellectual Property Guidelines and the Role of Agencies
2:40pm - 2:50pm	Cheryl Foong, Queensland University of Technology	Guide to Creative Commons and Government
Wrap up
2:50pm - 3:00pm		Closing comments

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ps: I noticed a locust crawling around the senate hearing room. I am not sure what omen this is. ;-)

Creative Commons in Parliament House

Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, will be opening the seminar "Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector: Open Access to Knowledge, Culture and Public Sector Information (PSI)" will be held in Parliament House, Canberra on Friday 26 November 2010. The seminar is free, but RSVP to cheryl.foong@qut.edu.au

Here is a copy of the draft program converted to HTML:

Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector: Open Access to Knowledge, Culture and Public Sector Information (PSI)

Chair: Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology

Friday 26 November 2010, Parliament House, Canberra

On the back of the growing capacity of networked digital information technologies to process and visualise large amounts of information in a timely, efficient and user‐driven manner, there has been an increasing demand for better access to and re‐use of public sector information.

Launching the Declaration of Open Government on 16 July 2010, then Minister Tanner said that it “lays an important foundation in implementing our Government 2.0 agenda”:

[I]t acknowledges that the internet holds a crucial role in realising a more open and transparent form of government in this country. The Declaration is about making more government information available to the public online, and encouraging reuse of that information in new, valuable and potentially unexpected ways. It is about giving Australians more of a say in forming the policy and delivering the services that have an influence on their lives. It is about enabling government agencies and individual public servants to be more innovative and more responsive to input and feedback, while still maintaining the high ethical and professional standards we expect. 1

The Hon. Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, who has agreed to deliver the opening address, has stated:

Open access to government data can dramatically increase the value created from the data both socially and economically [and] the society as a whole benefits from access to the data. 2

This one day seminar, chaired by Professor Anne Fitzgerald of Queensland University of Technology, will explain, through practical case studies, how government agencies may put Creative Commons licensing and Open Access policy into action. It will facilitate the implementation of current government IP policy within the operational practices of agencies.

1. Declaration of Open Government, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, issued 16 July 2010, at http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/2010/07/16/declaration‐of‐open‐government/.
2. Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2009.

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Using Creative Commons in the Public Sector: Open Access to Knowledge, Culture and Public Sector Information (PSI)

Date: Friday, 26 November 2010
Time: 10 am to 3pm
Location: Parliament House, Canberra
Entry: Free (please RSVP cheryl.foong@qut.edu.au by Monday 22 November 2010)

Programme

Introduction
10:00am - 10:20am	Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and for Immigration and Citizenship	Opening Address
10:20am - 10:40am	Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology	Overview of the development of Open Access Policy in Australia 2000-2010
10:40am - 11:00am	Neale Hooper, Queensland University of Technology	Creative Commons and Government
Case Studies: public sector
11:00am - 11:20am	Donna Nicholson, A/g Assistant Statistician, Integrated Collections & Dissemination Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics	Case Study: Australian Bureau of Statistics
11:20am - 11:40am	Roxanne Missingham, Australian Parliamentary Librarian	Case Study: Australian Parliament
11:40am -12:00noon	Bernard de Broglio, Internet Coordinator, Mosman Municipal Council	Case Study: Mossman Municipal Council, Sydney
12noon-1pm	Lunch
Case Studies: educational, cultural and creative
1:00pm -1:20pm	Seb Chan, Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies, Powerhouse Museum	Case Study: Powerhouse Museum
1:20pm - 1:40pm	Sherre DeLys, Founder/Executive Producer, ABC Pool	Case Study: ABC Pool
Implementing Open Access
1:40pm - 2:00pm	Colin Steele, Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University	Creative Commons in research and education
2:00pm - 2:20pm	Richard Best, Legal Advisor, NZ State Services Commission	New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing Framework (NZGOAL)
2:20pm - 2:40pm	Helen Daniels, Assistant Secretary, Copyright Law Branch, Attorney-General’s Department	New Intellectual Property Guidelines and the Role of Agencies
2:40pm - 2:50pm	Cheryl Foong, Queensland University of Technology	Guide to Creative Commons and Government
Wrap up
2:50pm - 3:00pm	Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology	Closing comments

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