Enabling open access to public sector information with Creative Commons Licences: the Australian experience - now available online
A draft version of the book chapter, Enabling open access to public sector information with Creative Commons Licences: the Australian experience by Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Professor Brian Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper is now available online on QUT ePrints. This chapter will be part of the forthcoming University of Sydney Press publication – Access to Public Sector Information: Law, Technology & Policy.
This book chapter provides an overview of Creative Commons licensing as the legally and operationally effective means by which open access to public sector or government information may be implemented in practice by governments in Australia and elsewhere. The following topics are dealt with:
- managing copyright to create a commons of public sector information (PSI);
- Creative Commons (CC) licences;
- the advantages of Using Creative Commons licences for managing PSI;
- legal and operational issues relevant to CC licences and PSI; and
- the Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) project: A Case Study.