Last month, Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand (CCANZ) ran a PledgeMe
crowdfunding campaign to finance a print run of their upcoming book, A Quiet Revolution:
Growing Creative Commons in Aotearoa, exceeding their target by over a
thousand dollars.
CCANZ is incredibly thankful for the support they were given during the
campaign and is over the moon with the result. The money that was raised over
the target will go towards printing extra copies of the book to donate to
libraries around New Zealand.
Creative Commons is a global movement that seeks to realise the
potential of the internet: nothing less than free, open and universal access to
the world's research, educational resources, data and culture. CCANZ provides
free copyright licences that are fully compliant with NZ law, plus a suite of
free resources written specially for the education and heritage sectors in
Aotearoa.
Over the past few years, CCANZ has been part of a quiet revolution in
Aotearoa. Creative Commons open copyright licensing is being adopted across
many sectors of NZ society: government, research, schools, arts, heritage, and
data. Many thousands of works are being shared and taonga are being opened up
for New Zealanders to learn from, build on and be inspired by.
A Quiet Revolution: Growing Creative Commons in Aotearoa sets out the
development of these important changes, what's happening now, and what it
means; including case studies from all over the country and essays from experts
in the various fields.
CCANZ Communications Lead Elizabeth Heritage has been managing the
publication of the book, assisted by students from the Whitireia publishing
programme.
“A Quiet Revolution showcases just a few of the wonderful things
that are happening when Kiwis start using open CC licensing: from saving time
and money, to being inspired to create new artworks - and even building houses
from a 3D printer! We are really proud to have been a part of this and look
forward to even greater things in 2016.”
While the opportunity to get a personal copy of
the print book has ended with the completion of the PledgeMe campaing, Creative
Commons Aotearoa would like to remind those who think they may be interested in
the book that the ebook will be available for FREE download from our webite, http://creativecommons.org.nz/, early next month
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