Professor Anne Fitzgerald Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

Creative Commons Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2012

Publications
CC & Government Guide: Using Creative Commons 3.0
http://creativecommons.org.au/sectors/government

Australia Licences on Government Copyright Materials Anne Fitzgerald, Neale Hooper and Cheryl Foong

Open Access to Judgments: Creative Commons licences and

the Australian Courts Anne Fitzgerald, Neale Hooper, Cheryl Foong and Brian Fitzgerald (submitted to Murdoch University Law Review) Creative Commons Book scheduled for publication early 2013 by University of Queensland Press

For wide readership covers the emergence of Creative Commons, examines the legal framework within which it operates, explains the operation of the CC licences, and discusses the adoption of CC in the creative, education, research and government sectors.

Seminars and Conferences

Creative Commons seminar, Australian Catholic

University, Melbourne, 15 June 2012

http://creativecommons.org.au/ccmelb2012 A seminar presented by the CC Australia team for those working in

government, education, research and cultural sectors and members of the general community who want to know more about Creative Commons licences, how they work and how they are being used Professor Brian Fitzgerald Introduction to CC Elliott Bledsoe CC & the Creative Sector Professor Anne Fitzgerald Open Educational Resources (OER) and Publicly Funded Research Liam Wyatt CC & Culture Professor Anne Fitzgerald CC in the Public Sector Cheryl Foong CC in Practice: Application, Search & Attribution

Seminars and Conferences

Creative Commons in the Digital Economy series

of seminars, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 5 Oct 16 Nov 2012

http://creativecommons.org.au/events/digitaleconomy

Anne Fitzgerald, Copyright and Open Content Licensing: the role of the Creative Commons licences, 5 October 2012 Cheryl Foong, CC in the Creative sectors and emerging business models; How to use the CC licences application, search and attribution, 19 October 2012 Anne Fitzgerald, CC in Education (incl. OER and MOOCs) and Research, 2 Nov 2012 CC and Government information and data Australian and International developments, 16 Nov 2012

Seminars and Conferences

4 Nov 2011 - National Library of Australia, Canberra organised and ran a free public seminar: Creative Commons for You, and for Government held in the theatre on lower ground floor. Program (from 10am to 3.00pm) included presentations by Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Neale Hooper and Cheryl Foong of CC Australia. Case studies were presented by Miles Nicholls of the Australian Living Atlas (ALS), a CSIRO initiative, and by Anthony Baxter of Googles Crisis Response Centre. Over 100 registrants attended from all 3 levels of government, as well as the research institutes and tertiary institutions, and a broad crosssection of the general public. Notable attendees from the research sectors included officers from CSIRO, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research and Australian Research Council, and also students and researchers from the University of Canberra. Several officers from the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (SEWPaC), and Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) were also in attendance.

Seminars and Conferences

23 September 2011 Open Government Data Conference at QUT, Brisbane program and presentations slides are available here: http://creativecommons.org.au/OGDbrisbane Speakers and presentations were as follows: The Honourable Simon Finn (Minister for Government Services, Building Industry and Information and Communication Technology) Senator Kate Lundy (Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) - Opening Keynote Address: The Path to Open Government Andrew Stott (Member of UK Transparency Board and formerly Director of Transparency, UK Government) - Open Data & Open Government implementation in the UK Richard Best (New Zealand Government) NZ Government policy and practice: NZGOAL Dr Terry Cutler (Cutler and Co) - Productivity dividends from Open Government Claire Driscoll (Director, Technology Transfer Office, National Human Genome Research Institute, U.S. National Institutes of Health) - National Institutes of Health: Strategy and Policy on Open Knowledge for Real World benefits Keitha Booth (Programme Leader, NZ Open Government Data and Information Programme) - Open and Transparent Government: innovation opportunities Dr Graham Vickery (Information Economics, Paris; formerly OECD) Policy and Principles (OECD) [Pre-recorded presentation] James Kliemt (Queensland Police Service) - Emergency Response and Social Media Dr Mark Elliott (Collabforge) Collaborating with the Crowd: online case studies for success

Seminars and Conferences

23 September 2011 Open Government Data Camp at

QUT, Brisbane 30 participants, including:

Mark Elliott (Collabforge) Facilitator Anthony Baxter (Google Australia, Crisis Response)

Keitha Booth (Programme Leader, NZ Open Government

Data and Information Programme) Dr Lucy Cradduck (Law lecturer, USC) James Kliemt (Queensland Police Service) Andrew Stott (Member of UK Transparency Board and formerly Director of Transparency, UK Government) Margaret Warren (Qld State Library, Libraryhack project) Pia Waugh (Technology Advisor) Jimmi Ti (PhD candidate, QUT)

Presentations
govCamp Queensland

Anne Fitzgerald, Creative Commons and Open Government Information The Edge, State Library of Queensland 3 March 2012 http://www.aupsi.org/presentations/

Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) Open Government Data

Camp

Anne Fitzgerald Warsaw, Poland October 2011

Africa Leadership in Sustainable Development and Enterprise

program (AusAID)

Anne Fitzgerald, Natural Resources Law and Intellectual Property Law Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith Business School, Griffith

University, South Bank, Brisbane 7 September 2012 presentation to ALAF fellows from Kenya and Tanzania

Presentations
NetHui Conference Creative Commons Meetup
Anne Fitzgerald, Presentation and Panel Discussion Open Research

and Open Educational Resources (OER) in Tertiary Education SkyCity, Auckland 12 July 2012 http://www.aupsi.org/news/nethuiccmeetup.jsp

Technology Takes You Anywhere 2012 (event organised by

Education Queensland, aimed at increasing school girls interest in technology and their confidence with using it)
Cheryl Foong Presentation on Creative Commons: Share, Remix,

Reuse Legally QUT, Creative Industries precinct, 13 July 2012.

Convergent Production course, University of Queensland

School of Communication and Journalism,

Anne Fitzgerald and Cheryl Foong, Creative Commons University of Queensland, St Lucia 27 August 2012

Presentations
11 August 2011 Creative Commons and

Innovation - University of Tasmania, Hobart Professor Anne Fitzgerald, with introduction by Professor Paddy Nixon, Pro Vice Chancellor 18 August 2011 NSW Local Government Web Network Conference - on CC and Local Government - Professor Anne Fitzgerald, with Neale Hooper attending to assist with queries 18 August 2011 Creative Commons and You public lecture at the Australia Council for the Arts, Surry Hills, Sydney - Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper.

Presentations
24 August 2011 Creative Commons and You -

James Cook University, Townsville - presentation by Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper

Scientists and Research data

12 August 2011 Scientific Researchers Workshop: CC and

scientific research results and data and open education , University of Tasmania, Hobart - for marine and ocean researchers (IMAS and IMOS), and Open Education pioneers (Professor David Sadler) 25 August 2011 CC and scientific research results and data, James Cook University, Townsville - Scientific Researchers Workshop attended by researchers from the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC), Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS), and JCU. Whole day workshop conducted by Prof Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper. 26 August 2011 presentation to Dr Geoff Garrett (and support staff), Queensland Chief Scientist, on Creative Commons (CC) and Research Data and Information. Presentation by Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper. 31 August 2011 presentation to Professor Ian Chubb (and staff), Federal Government Chief Scientist at his Canberra offices, on Creative Commons (CC) and Research Data and Information. Presentation by Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper

Scientists and Research data

9 November 2011 Geospatial Information System

(GIS) Workshop , Brisbane - organised by Manager, Spatial Services, in the Regional Natural Resource Management Groups Collective - presentation by Neale Hooper to over 20 officers including from (FNQ) Terrain NRM (Wet Tropics) dealt with CC licensing and CC licensing use in government, research, education and other sectors. 16 November 2011 - Creative Commons and You, James Cook University, Cairns campus presentations by Prof Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper. 16 November 2011 - CC and scientific research results and data, Cairns campus - participating in the workshop were researchers and managers from JCU, CSIRO, RRRC, Qld Health, Whitfield State School and Science Rhymes.

Briefings to cultural and media organisations

10 Nov 2011 Creative Commons licences: access and

policy - briefing by Professor Anne Fitzgerald to the Australian Broadcasting Commission at ABC HQ in Ultimo, Sydney. 14 June 2012 - briefing on CC to ABC, Sydney 15 June 2012 briefing on CC to Museum Victoria, Melbourne

Notable achievements
Adoption of CC BY as the default licence by Australian federal

government and some State governments

Updating of Attorney Generals Intellectual Property Manual Updating of IP Policies

Geoscience Australia to licence Landsat 8 images under CC BY

Has been working with Indonesia on geoscience and satellite data See http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3664

New Queensland Police Data website licensed under CC BY

See http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3723

ABC 80 Days project

Historical ABC audio-visual files released under CC BY-SA See http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3557

Etcc remix of visual arts

Exhibitions held in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in 2011 Each artist took Creative Commons licensed images, created

new work based on those images, and in turn licensed their own image for others to remixlegally. Updated website at http://etcc.tv/