The Australian Bureau of Statistics has announced that it plans to adopt a Creative Commons licence for the majority of its content posted online.
Australian Bureau of Statistics Adopts Creative Commons Licence
December 9, 2008
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Odd…
Australia is such an odd player in the digital world… One minute you hear about something cool like this, and then you go to the next headline, stating that they are running live trials of their country-wide internet filtering system (Great firewall of australia)…
They need to take a stance…
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interesting for everyone