Posts tagged “ccAustralia”

There are better ways to share knowledge than eating brains

Posted on June 1st, 2010

This article analogises the term of copyright, in particular the continuation of protection for 70 years after the death of the creator (in many countries), with zombies. Content, like the bodies of the living reanimated after death, lingers on for years after the author is dead. Through the short stories of American author Kelly Link and her preoccupation with zombie contingency plans and the genre-mashup Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the article aims to draw into light the potentially limiting effect that posthumous copyright protection has on innovation. The article was written for The Ownership Issue of WQ published by the Queensland Writers’ Centre. If you republish it or reuse it please attribute me as the author and acknowledge that the article was first…

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Tagged: ccAustralia, content corpses, Creative Commons, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Jane Austen, Kelly Link, permissions culture, pride and prejudice and zombies, Queensland Writers Centre, quirk books, sense and sensibility and sea monsters, seth grahame-smith, small beer press, zombies

Being open to access

Posted on May 28th, 2009

Queensland University of Technology was one of the first institutions in Australia to establish a publicly accessible scholarly research repository. QUT introduced an institution-wide policy for open access in January 2004 which led to the establishment of the ePrints repository. Professor Tom Cochrane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) at QUT talked through open access and QUT’s “insitutional approach to an institutional repository.” QUT also hosts a number of associated projects. It hosts the Creative Commons Australia project which administers the Australian Creative Commons licences. It also hosts the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project and it’s spin-off project the OAK List, a web-enabled database containing information about publishing agreements and publishers’ open access policies. Recently QUT also established Access to and…

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Tagged: auPSI, ccAustralia, Copyright Future conference, CopyrightFuture09, CRCSI, Creative Commons, ePrints repositories, Legal Framework for e-Research project, OAK Law Project, OAK List, open access, Prof Tom Cochrane, Queensland University of Technology

Future Copyright? – Thoughts on the opening sessions of Copyright Future

Posted on May 27th, 2009

Obviously I am down in Canberra at the Old Parliament House for the ARC Center of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation’s Copyright Future – Copyright Freedom conference and I’m attempting some live blogging action. After a warm welcome to country by Ruth Bell and a short address about the politics of the balance between creator’s rights and public access by the Attorney-General, the Honourable Robert McClelland. My boss, Professor Brian Fitzgerald, introduced the conference to it’s central theme: that perhaps the future of copyright is not the permissions culture of regulation, control and barriers but the facilitation of access to content. As Brian has outlined before, the digital era provides unprecedented opportunity for the production and dissemination of informational and creative content. He…

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Tagged: ccAustralia, CopyrightFuture09, Creative Commons, Old Parliament House (Aus), permissions culture, Prof Brian Fitzgerald, Robert McClelland MP, Ruth Bell