Creative Commons Ireland licences now available

We are pleased to announce that you can now license works using a Creative Commons Ireland licence.
See the Licence Chooser here - http://creativecommons.org/choose/.
Ireland now appears in the drop-down menu.

Thanks to all in Creative Commons for helping to make this happen, especially Diane Peters, Aurelia Schultz and Nathan Kinkade.

Here's the Creative Commons weblog entry (available at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31648):


Announcing the new Creative Commons 3.0 Ireland suite
Aurelia J. Schultz, February 27th, 2012
 
A hearty congratulations and a huge thanks to the CC Ireland team on the launching of the new suite of Ireland CC licenses! Led by Dr. Darius Whelan and Dr. Louise Crowley, the CC Ireland team worked for a long time to perfect these licenses, and their diligence has paid off. Artists in Ireland can now use a localized version of the most current licenses instead of an older license suite.

You can check out the new licenses through our license chooser and learn more about the CC Ireland team on their wiki page.

Avid readers will have noticed that announcements about 3.0 launches are getting fewer and fewer. Ireland, as one of the long-standing in-progress ports, was one of only a handful of 3.0 ports remaining. We hope to announce the launch of the rest within the next few months, before the launch of the new 4.0 license suite. Comments and input on the 4.0 licenses are very welcome!

Irish Post office wall box, nr Maum, CO. Galway,
Apr 1989 by sludgegulper / CC BY-SA

New Draft of CC Ireland Licence

We are happy to announce the next phase of public discussion of CC Ireland's licence draft, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Ireland. A previous version of this licence was published and opened for discussion and we are now seeking comments on the latest revised version.

To contribute a suggestion or question, please visit the BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence draft page and use the wiki’s discussion page to share your thoughts. You are also welcome to join the CC Ireland mailing list for further news and commentary about local activities.

The public discussion is an open forum where everyone – from lawyers to active licence users, from linguists to translators — can contribute and improve the licence texts. Comments should be submitted as soon as possible to allow enough time for review, so we encourage you to post to the list before the end of March 2011, when the discussion is scheduled to close.

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Creative Commons Ireland in the Irish Times

See this article by Karlin Lillington of the Irish Times :

Free and easy way to online licensing enters the mainstream
26 June 2009

Extracts:

[P]erhaps the most obvious sign of just how mainstream Creative Commons has become (after emerging from its libertarian, academic roots at Stanford University) is that the Obama administration uses it for licensing content on the official White House website, whitehouse.gov. It was also used for change.gov, the Obama-Biden transition team website.

Feedback in these final stages is again, invited from the Irish public. More information is available at creativecommons.org/international/ie/, where anyone can subscribe to the discussion list, view the current copy of the draft, and read what's described as an "English explanation of substantive legal changes" between drafts.

Draft Irish CC Licence available for public discussion

The draft of CC BY-NC-SA adapted to Irish law is now in public discussion. The public discussion is a key part of Creative Commons’ license porting project. It is an opportunity for you, content creators and licence users, to engage in the drafting process and give your input in this collaborative effort. We warmly invite you to join CC Ireland’s discussion list and share your comments with local and international legal experts.

See also this posting on the Creative Commons News blog.

News Update February 2009

The latest draft of the Creative Commons Ireland licence is being discussed with Creative Commons and will shortly be published here for public consultation.

New Draft Licence available

A new version of the draft Irish Creative Commons Licence is now available at
http://www.ucc.ie/law/irishlaw/creativecommons/licence.shtml

Comments and queries are welcome.
Please join in the discussion on the CC-IE list at
http://www.ucc.ie/law/irishlaw/creativecommons/email-lists.shtml