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about CCau
Creative Commons Australia (CCau) is the Australian derivative project of the Creative Commons project in the United States of America.
We are porting the Creative Commons licences into Australian domestic law and fostering a creative community premised on remixable creativity. Hosted at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, CCau is dovoted to the promotion of Creative Commons in Australia.
The CCau project is lead by:
- Professor Brian Fitzgerald - Head of Law School, Queensland University of Technology
- Tom Cochrane - Deputy Vice Chancellor, Technology, Information and Learning Support, Queensland University of Technology
Special thanks to
- Ian Oi, Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Drafting Team Lead 2003 to July 2005)
other members of the CCau team include:
- Elliott Bledsoe
- Nic Suzor
- Jessica Coates
- Amy Barker
- Emma Carroll
Australia is one of 43 countries world wide who have taken up the Creative Commons project.
for more information on Creative Commons activities worldwide, see the worldwide section of the Creative Commons website
about Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work. They offer a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” system. We’re a nonprofit. All of our tools are free.
The Creative Commons site has more information on:
- the history and theory behind Creative Commons
- an explanation of the basic licence protocols and the baseline rights associated with the CC standard licences
- an explaination of the legal concepts, including information on the public domain, the commons, open content and intellectual property conservancies
- things to think about before using a Creative Commons licence
- and an archive of CC press releases
Creative Commons research in Australia
CCau is closely associated with two research programs of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) - the Creative Commons Clinic and Open Content Licensing and Creative Commons Model Research. These programs investigate and promote the implementation of Creative Commons and other open content licensing models in Australia.
CCau also has close ties to the IP Knowledge, Culture and Economy program of the QUT Faculty of Law and the Institute of Creative Innovation.
Most of the materials and publications available on the CCau site are courtesy of these programs.
