Main licences in use in Australia
Commons, Crown Copyright and Public Sector Information
Consistency, Simplicity, Effectiveness, Implications
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5 Voluntary licensing creating public rights (2) Open content

Main licences in use in Australia

Creative Commons website, particularly About Us; Choosing A Licence; Things to Think About Before You Apply A Creative Commons Licence to Your Work; and Creative Commons Worldwide
Creative Commons Australia website
AEShareNet website, particularly: What We Do; Licensing Overview; Benefits of Licensing for Copyright Owners; Short Licence Comparison Table
*Brian Fitzgerald and Ian Oi, Free Culture: Cultivating the Creative Commons (2004) 9(2) Media and Arts Law Review 137
*Kimberlee Weatherall, “Would You Ever recommend a Creative Commons license?”[2006] AIPLRes 4
*Roger Clarke, “Copyright: The Spectrum of Content Licensing” (Roger Clarke website)
Jessica Coates, “CC and Virgin Mobile”, 27 July 2007, Creative Commons Australia
AP, with Asher Moses, “Virgin sued for using teen’s photo”, The Sydney Morning , 21 September 2007
Abi Paramaguru, “Virgin Australia and Creative Commons Named in Lawsuit”, The House of Commons, 21 September 2007
Fitzgerald et al OAK Law Project Report No 1 Ch 4 ‘Open access and open content licensing’, Report to DEST, 2006 (PDF)
Niva Elkin Koren – “Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit” in P.B. Hugenholtz and L. Guibauilt, The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law (2006)

Commons, Crown Copyright and Public Sector Information

Queensland Spatial Information Institute, “Government Information Licensing Framework Project Stage 2 Report”, October 2006, pp. 1 – 6 (Executive Summary; Recommendations; Project Background and Purpose; Project Scope).
Philip Chung and Graham Greenleaf – ‘Reusable Public Information’ logo and draft licence terms
Mireille van Eechoud, “The Commercialisation of Public Sector Information”, Ch XII in L. Guibault and P. Bernt Hugenholtz The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law, Kluwer Law International 2006
Intrallect Ltd and AHRC Centre for Studies in IP and IT Law, University of Edinburgh, The Common Information Environment and Creative Commons: Final Report to the Common Information Environment Members of a study on the applicability of Creative Commons licences

Consistency, Simplicity, Effectiveness, Implications

*Catherine Bond Simplification and Consistency in Australian Public Rights Licences Special Issue: Creating Commons SCRIPT-ed, (1) 2007, pp.38-58
*Andrew Rens, “Complexity and Simplicity” iCommons 2006, 25 June 2006
David M. Berry, “The Global Digital Commons and Other Unlikely Tales”, Open Democracy, 22nd June 2006