Hi folks, Ran across this via the Slattery's Watch newsletter, seems it may be of interest:
http://www.vic.gov.au/IPpolicy/ Press release http://www.rich-phillips.com.au/news/default.asp?action=article&ID=706 """ The Victorian Coalition Government has established a new policy for the management of the state’s intellectual property (IP). Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips said the policy, the first in its kind in Victoria, set out the intent and principles for use of intellectual property across the Victorian Government. “The Victorian public sector needs a more streamlined, consistent approach to its management of intellectual property,” Mr Rich-Phillips said. The policy sets out 12 core principles for the management of intellectual property relating to ownership and licensing, procurement, commercialisation, grants and funding for intellectual property development and the use of third party intellectual property. “The Victorian public sector creates, commissions, funds, owns, uses and manages a significant amount of intellectual property,” Mr Rich-Phillips said. “The majority of intellectual property generated by the state is protected by copyright which is why there is a need for a whole of government policy. “This new policy will see Victoria grant rights to its IP in a manner that maximises its impact, value, accessibility, benefit and is consistent with the public interest.” """ The second of the 12 principles is: "The State grants rights to its intellectual property with the fewest possible restrictions." which sounds pretty great! They're now developing the State's IP Guidelines which will go into more detail about how to select the right license etc, looking for input now. I suggest this could be a good opportunity to advocate for widely used licenses (GPL, CC-BY-SA) and in particular try to swerve people towards SA restrictions rather than NC. Also open standard formats and CSV before PDF/DOC :) cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
