Posts tagged “Creative Commons

The new ‘Brian Fitzgerald projects’

Posted on February 25th, 2012

While I’ve know about this for awhile, the information is now public so I can tell you all about it. My former boss, Professor Brian Fitzgerald—specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation, Co-Project Lead of Creative Commons Australia where I worked for 8 years, and more recently a Director of the corporation and member of the Board of Creative Commons—is taking up a new position as Executive Dean of  the new Faculty of Law at the Australian Catholic University from March this year. As most people who know me well can attest, I have nothing but admiration for Brian’s trailblazing leadership is so many of the areas I give a shit about. Before joining the Australia Council for the Arts I worked under Brian at…

Internet says, “nopa” to SOPA

Posted on January 19th, 2012

To help bring wider attention to the potential ramifications of SOPA and PIPA, an impressive list of internet heavyweights went black yesterday (United States time). While concern over the Bills has been simmering away online since last year, the 18 January blackout was designed to demonstrate the solidarity of it’s opponents and push it’s message to the general internet using population. Confirmed participants included Wikipedia, Google, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, WIRED, reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, Tumblr, Vimeo, Flickr, the icanhazcheezburger network and Internet Archive, among others. While Dominic Basulto thinks it’s too little, too late, pushing information about the Bills and why they are problematic in front of millions of internet users who are not digerati is hardly too little.  

IN/OUTPUTS for 28 November to 4 December

Posted on November 28th, 2011

In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s passed through my feeds this week DEEDI and QPS websites licensed under CC BY The use of Creative Commons by Government agencies in Australia is huge. The number of Australian government licence users dwarfs (almost) every other jurisdiction, and today that number ticked just a little higher. The ccAustralia blog published an entry about two Queensland Government departments that have applied Creative Commons to their online content: the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) and the Queensland Police Service (QPS).agencies have adopted the Australian Creative Commons Attribution licence (3.0 and 2.5 respectively). Please welcome DEEDI and QPS to the Commons! ♺ Cheryl Foong on Commons News (Australia), 28 November 2011.  Still hungry? Grab the In/outputs RSS feed for…