During 2007 the team worked closely with Ms Delia Browne of the Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA), assisting her to attend the iCommons iSummit and working with her on information materials for the education sector. As a direct result of her attendance, Ms Browne has become a central figure in the development of the Creative Commons’ new ccLearn project, and was one of the developers and signatories of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration (http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/).
Professor Fitzgerald was commissioned to write a specific report for the OECD on CC Licensing and Open Education Resources (OER) which was published on the OECD website along with their report (2007)
Nic Suzor and Brian Fitzgerald also contributed results of an Australian survey on OER commissioned by the OECD, and which was cited in the OECD Report
International engagement
The OCL research project continues to provide input into the growing international community around Creative Commons and open content licensing. Throughout 2007 project staff provided advice for Creative Commons Aoteoroa New Zealand on the drafting and launch of their jurisdiction licences, with Dr Anne Fitzgerald presenting on current developments in the CC community at the NZ launch. The OCL project actively contributes to the Australian and international CC websites and discussion lists; Elliott Bledsoe’s private CC blog, Creative Commons Through the Looking Glass, has been selected for republishing on the Creative Commons international website.
In conjunction with the Office of the QUT Vice Chancellor, the team hosted Professor William (Terry) Fisher in February 2007. Professor Fisher is the Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard University and the Director of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. While in Australia, Professor Fisher spoke to CCi researchers and presented two lectures, including Copyright and the Future of Entertainment (which was co-hosted by the State Library of Queensland), which outlined his new model of copyright administration (known as NOANK) and its intersection with CC licensing.