The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) adopts open license, and launches soon its new version website, which will be licensed mainly under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia. (Thanks to Open Knowledge Foundation blog). Extract:
Creative Commons provides a spectrum of licensing for the use of intellectual property between full copyright and public domain – in essence “some rights reserved”. The ABS is poised to introduce Creative Commons licensing for the majority of its web content.
The relevant Creative Commons logo (which will link to the Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence) will be included at the bottom of every page on the ABS website.
Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, and those explicitly granted below, all other rights are reserved.
You may display, reproduce and distribute up to 500 cells of data, in unaltered form only (including data contained within passages, tables, diagrams and images from www.abs.gov.au) without seeking formal consent.
Formal consent must be sought from the ABS where the amount of information exceeds 500 cells of data. The ABS reserves the right to set out the terms and conditions of use.
