Creative commons clinic

The CCI annual report for 2009 is now available to download as a PDF.

If you would like to receive a hard copy, please email infocci@qut.edu.au to request a copy.

Congratulations to Mark Ryan for winning a Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Creative Industries Career Fund grant to attend the 2010 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Los Angeles CA, March 17-21.

Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, has called for written submissions on proposed reforms to Australia's intellectual property (IP) system. CCI encourages all interested stakeholders to contribute to the discussion.

Calling anybody who's ever used a computer: set your creativity loose on the world of music, literature, art and video that is free to play with, remix and manipulate.

Pooling Ideas is an exciting competition being run by Creative Commons Australia, ABC Pool and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation as part of the Ideas Festival (a major initiative of the Queensland Government). It aims to get the digital artist in all of us up and running by inviting people to create their own remix works based around the theme "we are what we share".

In June Professor Brian Fitzgerald was invited to present at the inaugural ARC Graeme Clark Outcomes Forum at Parliament House in Canberra.

He outlined the outcomes the Creative Commons Project within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation has had in the creative, public and education sectors.

Rock group Nine Inch Nails caused a sensation in the music world recently - and it wasn’t for their front man’s antics. Every day, artists and consumers are finding new ways to engage with each other in a virtual world: traditional copyright rules are out; new business models are in. NIN’s online release of their current album under a Creative Commons (CC) licence which lets others share, burn and even remix their songs is just the latest example of artists allowing their fans to access and use creative product outside the powerful grip major corporations have traditionally held over distribution.

A new book, edited by Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor Fuping Gao, Mr Damien O’Brien and Mr Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, focuses geographically on the Asia-Pacific, and particularly on China and Australia, but addresses universal themes about the law of copyright and its adaptation to the Internet in the 21st century said the Hon Justice Douglas at the launch in Brisbane yesterday.

During 2008, the Clinic will deepen and expand its engagement with students, researchers and practitioners across the country and internationally by:

• creating an internship program, which will be open to students and those with relevant experience from all over the country and potentially internationally;

• developing more formal links (e.g., in the form of advising and supervising) with undergraduate and postgraduate students conducting research into Creative Commons;

• running an open content licensing Masters of Law unit in Second Semester 2008;

In 2007 the Clinic team took significant steps towards establishing a research foundation for the understanding and application of Creative Commons licensing as a legal tool designed to facilitate creative innovation.