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> From: "Colin Steele" <Colin.Steele -- anu.edu.au> > Date: May 17, 2010 8:31:48 PM CDT > > > Australian Federal Government Commits to Open Access > May 18, 2010 - 8:02 am > > http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/295 > > "CCau followers will remember the Government 2.0 Taskforce report > released in December last year, which gave Creative Commons a very big > tick as the licensing model of choice for Australian PSI. The Federal > Government's official response to the report was released yesterday and > is generally positive, with the Federal Government agreeing (at least > substantially) to 12 of the 13 recommendations to come out of the > report. > > The response, which was released by the Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner > via the Australian Government Information Office (AGIMO) blog, includes > a commitment to the development of a comprehensive set of IP guidelines > covering all Australian Federal agencies developed by the new > Information Commissioner. These guidelines will, in principle, follow > the Gov 2.0 recommendations that PSI should: > > *be by default free, open, and reusable; > *be released as quickly as possible; > *only be withheld where there is a legal obligation preventing its > release; > *be discoverable and accessible by a central government portal; and > *when it becomes available for public access under the Archives Act > 1983, will be automatically licensed under an appropriate open > attribution licence." > source: CC blog > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Colin Steele > Emeritus Fellow > Copland Building 24 > Room G037, Division of Information > The Australian National University > Canberra ACT 0200 > Australia > > > Tel +61 (0)2 612 58983 > Email: [email protected] > > University Librarian, Australian National University (1980-2002) > and Director Scholarly Information Strategies (2002-2003) > >
