NZGOAL: Creative Commons Licensing in the New Zealand Government

Photo by Christopher Schoenbaum (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisschoenbohm/4573726721). He has licensed it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 (Generic) licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en) State Services Commission Department of
Internal Affairs Ministry for the
Environment Land Information
New Zealand
and NIWA National Library The Treasury Pharmaceutical
Management Agency Creative Commons in the New Zealand Government Richard Best, Solicitor, Department of Internal Affairs NZGOAL Northland
Regional
Council Wellington City
Council Examples of CC across NZ Govt New Zealand
Police Human Rights Commission New Zealand
Army Ministry of Economic
Development Licences and tools Protected names, emblems and trade marks
Formats
Respect moral rights
Digital rights management
Charging
Updating released copyright works and non-copyright material
Procuring and preparing copyright works and non-copyright material
Review and release processs Policy Principles How it works Open licensing principle (CC-BY as default)
Ensuring copyright ownership or right to sub-license
Open access principle (“no known rights”)
Restrictions
Other CC licensing or restrictive licensing
Share-alike and no derivative works restrictions
Non-discrimination
Anonymisation
Attribution requirements for datasets Stage 1: Copyright-related rights evaluation
Stage 2: Evaluation of restrictions
Stage 3: Re-use rights selection
Stage 4: Application of CC licence or NKRS
Stage 5: Moral rights check
Stage 6: Format selection
Stage 7: Release
Review and release process Six Creative Commons licences
Restrictive licensing drafting issues
No known rights statement (currently reviewing new Creative Commons Public Domain Mark)
Warnings re liability exclusions and OIA releases
Creative Commons Plus (CC+) protocol Essence of NZGOAL What? Who? Why? Status NZGOAL is recommended guidance for agencies to follow when releasing copyright and non-copyright material for re-use by third parties NZGOAL applies to State Services agencies Two reasons:

creative, cultural, environmental and economic benefit
greater transparency of government performance NZGOAL is SSC Guidance, approved by Cabinet Cabinet has:

directed departments;
strongly encouraged other State Services agencies (other than school boards of trustees); and
invited school boards of trustees,

to:

familiarise themselves with NZGOAL, in its current form and as may be updated from time to time; and
take NZGOAL into account when releasing copyright material and non-copyright material to the public for re-use. NZGOAL:

lists a series of open licensing and open access principles, for copyright works and non-copyright material respectively;
advocates the use of CC licences for copyright works which are appropriate for release and re-use, and clear “no known rights” statements for non-copyright material released for re-use;
provides a review and release process to guide agencies through the review of works and other material they consider ought to be released for re-use; and
explains key aspects of copyright law relevant to the licensing process data.govt.nz Sources and contact details:

NZGOAL: www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal
Data directory: www.data.govt.nz

Richard Best:
email: richard.best@dia.govt.nz
phone: +64 4 463 1311
twitter: @richard_best