Creative Licensing to Expand Australia’s Public Domain - A Symposium
jointly hosted by
Baker & McKenzie
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
and AESharenet Pty
Ltd
Tuesday 11 May 2004, 5:45 for 6:00 - 7:45
pm
The Symposium
The Baker & McKenzie
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at UNSW Law Faculty and AEShareNet (a
non-profit company supporting a national collaborative system
to manage intellectual property in members' educational materials
using a system of standard and customisable licence protocols)
hosted this symposium to look at creative
opportunities to extend the public domain in content.
There were presentations from key participants in these developments,
and time for discussion and questions. The symposium format is
an opportunity to participants to share insights into these interesting
new developments in Australian intellectual property law, and
offered a forum for free-ranging discussion.
Specifically, we :
- considered the role of Crown copyright,
especially in legal materials, and the emerging opportunity
to have the
material contributed to the public domain.
- launched the new 'Free
for Education' licence from AESN, which gives
creators and users of educational content a range of options
including free and non-free usage.
- introduced the new 'Creative Commons' Australian
licence, based on the US model, and compare
it to the FfE.
(NB: Some of the issues raised will also be covered
in more depth by our 'Unlocking
IP'
conference in November 2004.)
Venue
Baker & McKenzie Conference
Room, 26th floor
AMP Building,
50 Bridge Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Date
Tuesday 11 May 2004
Programme
Chair
Professor Jill
McKeough, UNSW Law Faculty
6:00 Introduction – Concepts of ‘Public Domain';
and Crown Copyright on the verge of giving to the Public Domain
Professor Graham
Greenleaf – Faculty of Law,
University of New South Wales. PPT
LAUNCH: Announcing the Free
for Education ('FfE') Licence Protocol
The latest innovation in AEShareNet's suite
of licensing protocol solutions for learning materials
Philip
Crisp – Special Counsel, Australian Government Solicitor,
co-author of licence. PPT
and Dr Roger Clarke –
Chair, AEShareNet Ltd.
PPT 1 2
iCommons: Different Licences for Different Contexts
Similarities and differences between Creative Commons and Free
for Education
Ian Oi – Special Counsel,
Intellectual Property and Communications, Blake Dawson Waldron,
Joint project lead with Brian Fitzgerald at QUT for porting
the Australian
versions of the 'Creative Commons' licence. PPT
Panel discussion
Graham Greenleaf, Philip Crisp, Roger Clarke, and Ian Oi
7:30 Summary and closing remarks
To request an invitation, please contact:
David Vaile
Executive Director
Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
T: (02) 9385 3589
F: (02) 9385 1778
E: d.vaile [at] unsw.edu.au
Documents
'Free for Education' Licence, 'Open content' and related
issues
AESN's 'Free
for Education' Licence Protocol page, and their summary of
all 6 of their licence protocols.
Interview with Roger Clarke, 'Open for eBusiness', Australian
Flexible Learning Community, 20 April 2004
http://learnscope.flexiblelearning.net.au/LearnScope/golearn.asp?category=18&DocumentId=5332
Creative Commons
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