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moving to creative commons licences!

January 25th, 2011 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

As part of the process of opening up the DAAO to the structures and benefits  that the internet has to offer, we are moving to Creative Commons Licensing system. This is a small step that has big benefits. Its a small step because our existing Contributor and End-User Licence Agreements are already Creative Commons licences [...]

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Creative Commons Australia Roadshow

August 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · events

Creative Commons Australia will be putting on a “Road Show” at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) [Map] on September 15th from 10 am to 3:30 pm.  The event will discusses the nature of open licensing, sharing, and reuse and the implications these activities have for many different aspects of Australian society. The session will [...]

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Avoid Copyright infringement – use these tools!

February 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Copyright, Issues, Licencing, TELT news, Tools & applications

We’ve been putting resources together to help staff and students find and use material without infringing copyright.  As part of a Copyright Strategy Project, a new Wiki has been developed giving you access to public domain, open access and Creative Commons images, music, sound effects and open courseware. You still have to be careful to [...]

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Creative Commons, Mind manager, Moodle and more

November 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Learning & teaching, UNFED

UNFED notes November 25 2009 Creative Commons and UNSWorks Caroline Hedges presented a topic on Creative Commons, and how it applies to UNSWorks, which is the UNSW online repository of research publications. UNSWorks uses Creative Commons licensing to manage copyright of the works, and all UNSW staff are invited to publish their research publications there [...]

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Google Books now supports Creative Commons

August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Syndicated Post

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education, I’ve just discovered that Google has just announced the launch of an initiative that permits distribution of Creative Commons licensed works via Google Books.
The announcement indicates that this option is available as an account setting to members of their Partner Program.
Creative Licensed works will be identifiable by the standard Creative Commons logo and links to the full license, and will include download links. Google continues:
“…if the rightsholder has chosen to allow people to modify their work, readers can even create a …

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Open is Good

May 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · 111, Syndicated Post

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When I observe people who live in an open paradigm, where learning, teaching, sharing, collaborating, and communicating are done publicly, and made freely available to others to rip, mix and burn, I see far more than simply the act of doing so, or the resulting output [...]

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Recap of the Sydney Educators Network Meeting

May 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · 111, events, Syndicated Post

In light of the innaugural meeting of the SENG network (formal name STILL being discussed) yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on what took place, what was discussed, and throw in a few words on my interpretations and opinions .
We dropped the ball on recording the event
I’m very sorry to [...]

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