Australia Parliament ports website to CC license
The Australian Parliament officially announced that it will be porting its central http://www.aph.gov.au website across to a Creative Commons v3.0 BY-NC-ND licence. This is the website which houses all the most important documents of Australian Fedreal Government – including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings – so this is a major move for Australian government.
From the Australian Parliament announcement:
The Parliament of Australia is committed to open access to the resources it publishes to support a vibrant democracy. Recognising the important of ensuring access to its resources published on the website the parliament has approved publication under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/) instead of copyright protection. Full implementation will occur when the new web site is released in late 2010. Until then a notice appears on the copyright page advising of this change.
