[Linux-aus] Fwd: Creative Commons Australia update

[Bianca Gibson]

Thanks Brianna, it's now on the agenda for our teleconf tonight.

On 13 June 2012 13:36, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Item #5 regarding the forthcoming Australian Law Reform Commission's
> review of the Copyright Act may be of interest to LA.
>
> cheers
> Brianna
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>
> Date: 13 June 2012 13:09
> Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] Creative Commons Australia update
> To: WMAu members <members at wikimedia.org.au>, Wikimedia-au
> <wikimediaau-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: Scott Bibby <russavia.wikipedia at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just a bit of an update on some of the things that Creative Commons
> Australia are up to that are related to Wikimedia...
>
> 1.
> A couple of weeks ago I believe it was Russavia who was asking about
> the Australian War Memorial (AWM) given commons was working out how to
> deal with many deletions of their content from Commons due to not
> being in the PD in the US -- due to URAA. I've had a bit of a chat and
> they're apparently having some internal meetings to re-investigate
> their stance on what they do when they own the relevant IP to content
> - and CC-BY is specifically on the table as an option. So that's
> great. Even so, It'll take a fair amount of time for any formal policy
> change to happen even if everything goes "our way". Watch this
> space... [these meetings are not 'in response to the URAA' but just
> conveniently timed].
>
> 2.
> I'm in late-stage talks with the National Museum of Australia (NMA) to
> donate about 50 images of objects currently on display in their
> collection - CC-BY at 100pixels (and also hopefully a TIFF quality
> aerial shot of the museum itself). This will be their first foray into
> Creative Commons so I'm quite happy. They're currently just making
> sure all the metadata is ready, the captions are checked by the
> curators, and approval for this gets checked by various managers
> (given it's their first time using CC).
>
> 3.
> This Friday morning CC-Australia is hosting a general intro to the
> cultural sector (and anyone else really) about Creative Commons in
> Melbourne. http://creativecommons.org.au/ccmelb2012 Myself and some
> other folk are presenting. Feel free to register and come along if
> you're interested/able (though I think anyone on these lists is
> already very familiar with how CC works :-) ) Steven Z - would you be
> happy my sending any GLAMs your way who are interested in talking to a
> Wikimedian locally?
>
> 4.
> After this the CC team is meeting with Museum Victoria to help them
> over the line to adopt CC for their collection database and other
> parts of their IP. This discussion is about halfway between the AWM
> and the NMA in terms of its progress.
>
> 5.
> Last night I went to a public lecture hosted at UTS (Sydney) called
> "New Models for Copyright Law Reform" and run by the University of
> Melbourne
> http://www.ipria.org/events/seminar/2012/CopyrightLawReform/CopyrightReform.html
> The Chair of the proceedings was Jill McKeogh who is the commissioner
> of the forthcoming Australian Law Reform Commission's review of the
> Copyright Act. The presenters (Dan Hunter and Julian Thomas) spent a
> good proportion of their talks discussing how the Wikipedia Blackout
> against SOPA/PIPA was so influential and important. They also argued
> that the copyright lobby's insistence on 'commercial-incentives being
> the only justification for creators' was basically bollocks. You could
> practically hear the copyright maximalists in the room grinding their
> teeth (and they were all there - including reps. from AFACT, the
> various collecting societies, the Copyright Council...). I spoke
> briefly with Commissioner McKeogh afterwards and she said she was very
> interested in receiving submissions that are from organisations who
> are not the usual suspects [I'm paraphrasing, not quoting!].
> So... I highly recommend that Wikimedia Australia (perhaps in
> collaboration with others) make a submission when the call is
> published - which should be soon.
> http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/copyright (although, the review's
> ability to do anything will be limited by the scope the TPP and ACTA
> trade agreements
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/acta-tpp-limit-scope-of-copyright-review-339339620.htm
> - the author of this article was also at the seminar). Personally,
> I'll be making a short, private submission focusing specifically on
> getting a statutory provision equivalent to the bridgeman v. corel
> precedent included in the Copyright Act.
>
> 6.
> Tomorrow myself and some other CC folks are meeting with the ABC in
> Sydney to followup on the donation a few months ago of those 20 videos
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation
> We're presenting metrics on use etc. and seeing what "stage 2" might
> look like.
>
> 7.
> Finally, I was invited to speak a couple of weeks ago at the State
> Library of NSW's hosting of the State reference librarian's networking
> group meeting
> http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/services/public_libraries/networking/index.html
> They've been hearing about the progress at the QLD regional Wiki
> training program that Wikimedia Australia's been running over the last
> few months and are quite interested to undertake a similar project
> across regional NSW. Which is awesome. Their Chair has written about
> this and I've forwarded it on to JohnVdB.
>
> So, sorry for the omnibus email, just though I should keep everyone in
> the loop :-)
>
> Hope everyone's well,
> -Liam
>
> wittylama.com/blog
> Peace, love & metadata
>
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