Lightning talk: Amanda Wakaruk
The closed door of open government: Creative Commons as a remedy for Crown copyright barriersOpen licensing of government publications is a laudable goal, but is rarely achieved in Canada. As a result, many government works have become inaccessible, or even been lost due to Crown copyright chill. This session will report on recent advocacy work to persuade Canada’s federal government to update an antiquated and undemocratic copyright provision. This includes parliamentary testimony provided by Creative Commons and other stakeholders.
Lightning talk: Huseyin KebapciFurthering the reuse of public knowledge: European Commission adopts CC
licenses
The European Commission has recently adopted CC-BY 4.0 and CC0 as its
standard open licences. Through its reuse policy, the Commission has already
been making its documents, publications, data and websites freely available to
the wider public. With CC licences, we can now create a reuse experience that is
less burdensome, more user-friendly and machine readable, all the while
improving legal clarity and downstream compatibility. The European Commission
is also launching a multi-language translation initiative to contribute to the
efforts of the Creative Commons community.
Lightning talk: Sailesh Patnaik
From a pilot project to policy level changes; Odisha Government adopting CC licensesIt all started in June 2017 where as a pilot project Odisha government released the website of Asian Athletic Championship under a Creative Commons license, showing the impact of their decision and with more pilot projects in the last one year, Odisha has agreed to have an Open content policy and adopt Creative Commons 4.0 license as a default license of their work.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fTybWpi3YDU_AamyKBeF4cR1BWyc1p0nZiQFnoss-zY/edit?ts=5cd6fb06
Session notes:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sE-Dz-WpkiXLBimSYV9ufqDIMcBvRqR5_EVQcpq7_As/edit
