just one point below On 13 June 2012 11:09, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > Just a bit of an update on some of the things that Creative Commons > Australia are up to that are related to Wikimedia... > > 1. > A couple of weeks ago I believe it was Russavia who was asking about the > Australian War Memorial (AWM) given commons was working out how to deal > with many deletions of their content from Commons due to not being in the > PD in the US -- due to URAA. I've had a bit of a chat and they're > apparently having some internal meetings to re-investigate their stance on > what they do when they own the relevant IP to content - and CC-BY is > specifically on the table as an option. So that's great. Even so, It'll > take a fair amount of time for any formal policy change to happen even if > everything goes "our way". Watch this space... [these meetings are not 'in > response to the URAA' but just conveniently timed]. > I believe the decision on commons was incorrect as the URAA specifically required that for copyright to be restored in the US that the artwork had to be registered with in a specific period, I remember a case involving the Bradman museum where they tried to enforce copyright on a work under URAA and it was dismissed because they had failed to register the work during the speficied period. > > 2. > I'm in late-stage talks with the National Museum of Australia (NMA) to > donate about 50 images of objects currently on display in their collection > - CC-BY at 100pixels (and also hopefully a TIFF quality aerial shot of the > museum itself). This will be their first foray into Creative Commons so I'm > quite happy. They're currently just making sure all the metadata is ready, > the captions are checked by the curators, and approval for this gets > checked by various managers (given it's their first time using CC). > > 3. > This Friday morning CC-Australia is hosting a general intro to the > cultural sector (and anyone else really) about Creative Commons in > Melbourne. http://creativecommons.org.au/ccmelb2012 Myself and some other > folk are presenting. Feel free to register and come along if you're > interested/able (though I think anyone on these lists is already very > familiar with how CC works :-) ) Steven Z - would you be happy my sending > any GLAMs your way who are interested in talking to a Wikimedian locally? > > 4. > After this the CC team is meeting with Museum Victoria to help them over > the line to adopt CC for their collection database and other parts of their > IP. This discussion is about halfway between the AWM and the NMA in terms > of its progress. > > 5. > Last night I went to a public lecture hosted at UTS (Sydney) called "New > Models for Copyright Law Reform" and run by the University of Melbourne > http://www.ipria.org/events/seminar/2012/CopyrightLawReform/CopyrightReform.htmlThe > Chair of the proceedings was Jill McKeogh who is the commissioner of > the forthcoming Australian Law Reform Commission's review of the Copyright > Act. The presenters (Dan Hunter and Julian Thomas) spent a good proportion > of their talks discussing how the Wikipedia Blackout against SOPA/PIPA was > so influential and important. They also argued that the copyright lobby's > insistence on 'commercial-incentives being the only justification for > creators' was basically bollocks. You could practically hear the copyright > maximalists in the room grinding their teeth (and they were all there - > including reps. from AFACT, the various collecting societies, the Copyright > Council...). I spoke briefly with Commissioner McKeogh afterwards and she > said she was very interested in receiving submissions that are from > organisations who are not the usual suspects [I'm paraphrasing, not > quoting!]. > So... I highly recommend that Wikimedia Australia (perhaps in > collaboration with others) make a submission when the call is published - > which should be soon. http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/copyright(although, > the review's ability to do anything will be limited by the scope > the TPP and ACTA trade agreements > http://www.zdnet.com.au/acta-tpp-limit-scope-of-copyright-review-339339620.htm- > the author of this article was also at the seminar). Personally, I'll be > making a short, private submission focusing specifically on getting a > statutory provision equivalent to the bridgeman v. corel precedent included > in the Copyright Act. > > 6. > Tomorrow myself and some other CC folks are meeting with the ABC in Sydney > to followup on the donation a few months ago of those 20 videos > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Australian_Broadcasting_CorporationWe're > presenting metrics on use etc. and seeing what "stage 2" might look > like. > > 7. > Finally, I was invited to speak a couple of weeks ago at the State Library > of NSW's hosting of the State reference librarian's networking group > meeting > http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/services/public_libraries/networking/index.htmlThey've > been hearing about the progress at the QLD regional Wiki training > program that Wikimedia Australia's been running over the last few months > and are quite interested to undertake a similar project across regional > NSW. Which is awesome. Their Chair has written about this and I've > forwarded it on to JohnVdB. > > So, sorry for the omnibus email, just though I should keep everyone in the > loop :-) > > Hope everyone's well, > -Liam > > wittylama.com/blog > Peace, love & metadata > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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