Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 Creative Commons at Geoscience Australia Jeff Kingwell Head, Project Management Office Information Services Branch Geoscience Australia

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 Business requirements Simplify licence regime (currently several dozen in use, many on a one-off basis) to reduce legal costs and administrative overheads Protect Commonwealth IP, prevent implicit endorsements and reduce liability exposure Facilitate use, re-use & value adding based on Public Sector Information obtained as part of GA core business Observe Commonwealth IP Principles, Cost Recovery Guidelines and Spatial Data Access & Pricing policy (SDAP) Fundamental approach is ready/open access except where special circumstances apply eg –Third party ownership/ownership unclear –National security –Privacy issues

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 Current default licence “OSDM” licence is default. Overseen by the Office of Spatial Data Management (hosted by GA) under the SDAP policy). Represents compromise between market-driven and open access approach of its time (2001). Generally requires registration of user – implicit administrative overhead. “Opt in” approach – datasets nominated on case by case basis, added by OSDM to a Schedule. In principle, implies re Not optimised for machine to machine or machine to client transaction. Not widely recognised outside of geospatial community.

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 Creative Commons Pilot Project Identified CCL as potentially attractive approach Standard, world-wide, recognised, on-line help Configured to Australian jurisdiction Supported through OAK and related projects – possibility of leveraging legal and technical ground work Facilitates machine to machine transactions Interfaces/tools for Microsoft, Google, Firefox - improves Discoverability & Interoperability/Interuse Comparatively simple language, clarifies conditions of use & reuse

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 Creative Commons Pilot Project outcomes Obtained legal advice on utility of CCL in GA environment Identified representative sample of ~ 20 GA products Applied simple vetting process to select 5-6 highly suitable candidates (including most popular, most voluminous information transactions, & where risk mitigation indicated for current arrangements) Obtained specific legal advice on those candidates Obtained CIO and AGD/Copyright Office endorsement to selectively apply CCL Attribution 2.5 and evaluate after 6 months Currently implementing CCL release for these products.

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 Licences used in GA ACRES: Satellite/sensor specific licences NOAA, MODIS, ASTER (2), Landsat, ALOS, ERS, …… OSDM Licence National Mapping/GEODATA TOPO GADDS CRC agreements Other collaborative agreement eg AMIRA GNU Public OGC Defence Data No licence Other licence

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 Creative Commons approach 4 Search facility on Google, Mozilla Interface with MS -Can watermark with correct CC licence logo

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 Digital Geographic Commons Conceptual Model (Licensing Geographic Data and Services, National Research Council, 2004) Metadata, licence, ownership and disclaimer all embedded in the data (“watermarking”) On-line tool to assist in generation of metadata Users can search for, access and download the watermarked datasets Feedback facility for user/peer assessment

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007 External factors Endorsement in principle of CCL by Commonwealth Spatial Data Management group Cutler/Innovation Inquiry recommendation 7.8

Creative Commons Pilot October 2007