Building an Australasian Commons

http://creativecommons.org.au/materials/Building_an_Australasian_Commons_book.pdf
There is a draft version of Volume 1 of theCreative Commons Case Studies Bookis available for perusal. The book is sectioned into clusters, drawing together examples of people and projects using Creative Commons around the Asia-Pacific.

Creative Commons newsletter June 2008

http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/newsletter/ccnewsletter7.pdf
includes science commons news, elfnet news and more

building an australasian commons

http://creativecommons.org.au/australasiancommons
The conference will be held on Tuesday 24th June 2008 from 8.30am – 5pm at the State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane

It provides an opportunity for those interested in the free internet to come together to exchange ideas, information and inspiration. It brings together experts from Australasia to discuss the latest developments [...]

Rockefeller University Press adopts Creative Commons license policy

Rockefeller University Press has just announced that it will follow a
Creative Commons license for its journals.   An explanatory editorial
by the executive editor of The Journal of Cell Biology and the executive director of the press is online at:
http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200804037
Ray English
Director of Libraries
Oberlin College
thanks Ray

Creative Commons Statement of Intent

DRAFT Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8186

Creative Commons licence for Murdoch Uni innovation

Zablon Njiru and Andrew Thompson of Murdoch University, and their research team, have developed a relatively simple, low-tech and low-cost blood test for identifying the presence of trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness.
Instead of selling their elegant innovation to a pharmaceutical company, they have published it in an Open Access [...]

Planet Creative Commons

http://planet.creativecommons.org/
This page aggregates blogs from Creative Commons, CC jurisdiction projects, and the CC community. Opinions are those of individual bloggers.

IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Pilot Project Exploring Creative Commons Licensing of Interoperability Specifications

http://www.imsglobal.org/pressreleases/IMSPRCreativeCommons.pdf
Leading Educational and Learning Technology Standards Consortium Will Pilot New Approach to Supporting Interoperability and Innovation 
Lake Mary, FL, USA, 3 March 2008. Today the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) announced plans to initiate a pilot project in the distribution of interoperability specifications under a form of Creative Commons [...]

UAuckland to embed CC metadata for theses in its IR

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8079

Michelle Thorne, February 28th, 2008
The University of Auckland has just announced that they have embedded Creative Commons licensing for all new submissions by PhD students into the university’s digital repository, ResearchSpace.
From the repository’s librarian Leonie Hayes:
“At the moment the showcase collection is PhD theses, there are nearly 800 in the PhD collection, [...]

Australian Governments Embrace Creative Commons Licensing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/14/freeourdata.intellectualproperty
When you’re dealing with a flooding emergency in the middle of the worst drought for many years, the last thing you need is barriers to the sharing of geographical and meteorological information.
Yet that’s the situation faced by Australia. The authorities’ response is to consider the widespread adoption of Creative Commons licences for public-sector information.
Last month, [...]