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Brian holds postgraduate law degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University.
He is co-editor of one of Australia's leading texts on E-Commerce, Software and the Internet - Going Digital 2000 - and has published articles on Law and the Internet, Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law in Australia, the United States, Europe and Japan.
Over the past two years Brian has delivered seminars on information technology and intellectual property law in Australia, New Zealand, China, USA, Canada, Norway and the Netherlands. In October 1999 Brian delivered the Seventh Annual Tenzer Lecture - Software as Discourse: The Power of Intellectual Property in Digital Architecture - at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University in New York.
In October 2000 he was invited as a part of the Distinguished Speaker series hosted by the Ontario wide Centre for Innovation Law and Policy to deliver an address on Digital Property at the University of Western Ontario Law School in London, Canada.
During the first half of 2001 he was a Visiting Professor at Santa Clara University Law School in Silicon Valley USA, teaching a seminar on Digital Property (external link). In March 2001 he convened a forum on "Innovation, Software, and Reverse Engineering: Technological and Legal Issues" and in June 2001 organised a seminar on "Legal and Business Issues Relating to Open Source Software" both held at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley.
From 1998-2001 Brian was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in NSW.
Jessica Coates is the Project Manager of the Creative Commons Clinic, which aims to further the implementation of the international open content licensing movement, Creative Commons, through the promotion of Creative Commons research and usage in Australia.
Jessica joins the Clinic on secondment from the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA), where she has spent most of the last decade as a copyright and communications policy officer. At DCITA, Jessica worked primarily in the Intellectual Property Branch, where she took a major role in the development and implementation of copyright reform, including the Digital Agenda Amendments and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement. Whilst with DCITA, Jessica also worked on the ABC and SBS policy with the National Broadcasting Section and on IT usage by museums with the Collections Development Branch.
Jessica has a Bachelor of Laws from the Australian National University, and is currently undertaking a Masters in e-Law with Melbourne University
elliott bledsoe
project officer
Elliott is a Project Officer with CCau. His work with the project is mainly around the creative industries. He regularly attends festivals and conferences to talk about Creative Commons.
He is also the Vice President of Vibewire Inc, a national non-profit youth media and arts organisation providing platforms of expression for young Australians to discuss the things that matter to them.
He is Creative Director of Artcast and Sponsorshop. He is also Managing Editor of 4000.
Sometimes he is even a freelance journalist film and music reviewer and blogger. In his spare time he drinks gin and tonic and offers social commentary.
nic suzor
research officer
Nic Suzor is a PhD student in the law school at QUT in Brisbane, Australia, exploring legal issues relating to the legitimate governance of virtual environments.
His background is in both law and computer science, holding undergraduate degrees in Law and IT from QUT, and having worked as a computer programmer before moving to legal research. He has recently completed a Masters of Laws (research), in which his thesis examined the transformative use of copyright material in Australia. He is involved in several research projects including Creative Commons Australia, research into legal issues of Free and Open Source Software, computer games (with particular reference to massively multiplayer online environments), and collaborative commons-based production.
Nic teaches jurisprudence in QUT's undergraduate law programme, and legal issues in QUT's Creative Industries faculty.
Nic joined the EFA Board in 2006.
about creative commons
before you read on, please be aware that this is the creative commons australia myspace. for the international creative commons myspace, click here, thanks.
Creative Commons is an internationally active non-profit organisation that aims to promote open copyright
options for creators. Creative Commons builds upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” system.
At the core of the Creative Commons project is a suite of standardised licences that are made freely available to authors and artists and which provide a range of protections and freedoms for their material. Artists can use these licences to increase the ways that the general public can legally access and use their creative material, without giving up their copyright. This “some rights reserved” concept is designed to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules. It is a prior permission system utilising private rights for public goods.
about creative commons australia
creative commons australia is the Australian arm of Creative Commons. Based at QUT Faculty of Law in Brisbane, ccau is devoted to the implementation and promotion of Creative Commons in Australia and to fostering opportunities for the creative community to take advantage of the potential afforded by digital technologies.
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about the licences
Creative Commons licences fall into different licence categories according to the following conditions:
attribution :: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give you credit.
non-commercial :: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.
no derivatives :: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
share alike :: You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
"some rights reserved": building a layer of reasonable copyright
Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which "all rights reserved" (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered species.
Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare "some rights reserved."
Thus, a single goal unites Creative Commons' current and future projects: to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules.
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An eight month old terrier was stolen from a family and tortured. The police are shocked by what they have found. This puppy was taken from a house, by two 22 year old males, and had several things done to it over a long period of time, ending in its tragic death. The puppy was stolen-the boys filmed the following events in three segments on their mobile phone. The little pup had its legs cut off by a pair of garden cutters. It's nose was slashed off, it's stomach cut open from stomach to tail, and stabbed several times. The puppy did not die at this point. The puppy was yelping and screaming out in horrific unbearable pain. Imagine, because I can't. The boys continued to film as they tortured it in many ways, and finally decapitated (cut its head off) it causing it to die slowly. They cut its head off with a pocket knife.
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attribution :: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give you credit.
non-commercial :: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.
no derivatives :: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
share alike :: You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
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