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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Episode 277: Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada's Unexpected Signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention
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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 277: Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada’s Unexpected Signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention

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