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Creative Commons provides a range of copyright licences, freely available to the public, which allow those creating intellectual property – including authors, artists, educators and scientists – to mark their work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
Digital technologies offer new opportunities for making and accessing creative work of all kinds, and digital self-publishing is rapidly expanding across the world - from musicians, filmmakers and designers to universities, museums and libraries.
From this site you can find out about Creative Commons New Zealand 3.0 Licences, read about other Kiwi CC users, join the CC community and promote your work, keep up to date with news and events and share your thoughts.
What's new
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Creative Commons online workshop
"Open content licensing for educators" is a free online workshop held from 23rd - 27th January 2012. It is designed for educators who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licences. -
New search tool
The Creative Commons Korea project has released an attractive new content search tool - making it easy to source Creative Commons licensed materials. -
Beethoven's Open Repository of Research
According to Beethoven "There should be only one repository of art in the world, to which the artist would donate his works in order to take what he would need". Scientist and open access advocate Daniel Mietchen has teamed up with University of Auckland's Fabiana Kubke to plan for a living research repository in the spirit of Beethoven's vision.
