Creative Commons – a new copyright model

With the explosion in self-generated Web sites comes the problem of who owns copyright on content published for global consumption. CDU reports that Professor Brian Fitzgerald’s lecture on the new field of copyright law known as Creative Commons, outlined the enormous potential for copyright infringement where content posted on the Net can be easily accessed, altered and ‘cut and pasted’ into new versions of someone’s creativity. Fitzgerald, who is project leader for Creative Commons investigation in Australia, said those happy to share their content could simply badge their material as Creative Commons: Attribution. This allowed it to be reproduced, so long as the creator of the material was acknowledged. Full CDU report