Austria

The team from Austria is taking care on jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses and is promoting the usage of CC licenses in cultural, educational and governmental organizations and in the creative industries sector.

Events

3rd CC alps Salon @ Open Data Conference Linz 26 June 2012

ARCHIVIA Conference 31.8./1.9.2012, Wissensturm Linz

Recent activities

- Nicole published a new flyer on "Freie Kultur"

- contribution to a booklet for the creativwirtschaft austria / WKÖ about copyright / trademark / patent issue (order for free any quantity or download here)

- contribution to a policy making document on music funding for ZIT (download pdf or order booklet at departure)

- consulting on Open Data Government: major Austrian cities (Wien, Linz, Graz) use CC-by licenses for publishing their data

Community

CC Austria Mailing List: discussion, announcement, cases: read | subscribe | post.

CC 3.0 – German explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF) CC 1.0 – License draft (PDF) CC 1.0 – English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF)

Priority Goals 2012 / 2013

1. Rights Collecting Society Compatibility
2. Preparation of Workshops for artists at the ARCHIVIA conference Wissensturm Linz 1+2 September 2012 (during Ars Electronica Festival)
3. Commenting on CC 4.0 (allow additional clause, CRR instead of NC)
4. Transferring CC 4.0 unported to Austrian law (2013)
5. Extend CC usage in Open Government Data initiatives

CC Austria Lead Organisation: osAlliance ALLMENDA

The osAlliance is part of the ALLMENDA cooperative and consists of software consultants, radio stations, media designers and legal experts for Free Software who jointly work on various projects. It was founded in 2003 as a successor of the PUBLIC VOICE Lab. Their members support Creative Commons since the CC Austria licenses launch in 2005 with workshops, hosting and communication.

Supporting Organisation: FH Vorarlberg

The The Department of Design and Media Based Communication at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences is offering teaching and research resources for intermedial design and communication challenges. During 2004-2006, it was managing the Competence Network Media Design, which supported the launch of Creative Commons in Austria at the Ars Electronica in 2005 (with the legendary "Open Source Water Bottles") and the launch of Registered Commons in 2006 at the Wizards of OZ conference in Berlin as a timestamping service for the CC community.