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Big Creative Commons news \u00a0in Australia today – version 3.0 licences were launched<\/a> and\u00a0\u00a0The Australian Parliament goes CC – with v3.0<\/a> . <\/strong>Hansard (the transcript of Parliamentary proceedings) will now be released under Creative Commons…\u00a0both links and the quote below via the Creative Commons Australia<\/a> site . <\/strong><\/p>\n Hopefully most of you have seen the <\/em>official launch<\/em><\/a> of the Australian v3.0 licences earlier today.<\/em><\/p>\n We\u2019re very pleased to announce that the licences, only a few hours old, already have their first significant adopter. A couple of weeks ago the Australian Parliament officially announced, via the Australian Library and Information Association’s mailing list, that it will be porting its central<\/em>http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au<\/em><\/a> website across to a <\/em>Creative Commons v3.0 BY-NC-ND Australian licence<\/em><\/a>. This is the website which houses all the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government \u2013 including all <\/em>bills<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>committee reports<\/em><\/a> and, most importantly, the <\/em>Hansard<\/em><\/a> transcript of Parliamentary Sittings \u2013 so this is a major move for the Australian Government.<\/em><\/p>\n From the Australian Parliament announcement:<\/em><\/p>\n The Parliament of Australia is committed to open access to the resources it publishes to support a vibrant democracy. Recognising the important of ensuring access to its resources published on the website the parliament has approved publication under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/au\/) instead of copyright protection. Full implementation will occur when the new web site is released in late 2010. Until then a notice appears on the copyright page advising of this change. Since its <\/em>endorsement of open access<\/em><\/a> as its preferred default in its response to the Gov 2.0 Report last month, the Federal Government has released the <\/em>Budget<\/em><\/a>, the <\/em>NBN implementation study<\/em><\/a> and the <\/em>Gov 2.0 response<\/em><\/a> itself all under CC licences. This latest announcement solidifies the government’s commitment to openness and transparency, and means that the entire public record of our government will now be available for non-commercial reuse by anyone, without the need for additional permissions.<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nWe are enormously excited at this step to open up parliamentary information.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n