Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that helps people share their copyright works for reuse by others. Sometimes creators and other copyright holders want the public to be able to reuse their works but are unable to allow reuse easily and legally given the works’ “All Rights Reserved” copyright status. Creative Commons licences enable copyright holders to allow reuse of their works by giving everyone a range of permissions in advance.

Using a clear and robust Creative Commons licences, you can choose the kinds of permissions to grant over your work. Individuals, institutions, artists, scientists and public agencies around the world are now declaring “Some Rights Reserved” with Creative Commons licences.

People who use Creative Commons licences are contributing to the Commons, that global pool of reusable works, and are helping to create a culture of sharing, reuse and innovation.

Staff

Matt McGregor, Public Lead

Matt is the Public Lead at Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand, and manages the project’s day-to-day activities.

Elizabeth Heritage, Communications Lead

Elizabeth is the Communications Lead at Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand, and manages communications with stakeholders.

Advisory Panel

The Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand Advisory Panel provides advice to the CCANZ project and links back to stakeholders.

Fabiana Kubke, University of Auckland (Chair)

Fabiana is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Auckland. A leader in the Open Access movement, Fabiana writes about open science at her blog, Building Blogs of Science, part of the Science Media Centre’s SciBlogs network. Recently, she has also started blogging for the Public Library of Science.

Chris Cormack, Senior Developer, Catalyst IT

Chris is a senior developer at Catalyst IT, and is one of the original developers of the Koha Open Source Library management systems. Chris is a passionate enthusiast of using Open Source and Open data for the betterment of Te Iwi Māori and Aotearoa in general.

Carolyn Stuart, Education Sector Lead, Network for Learning

Carolyn Stuart is the Education Sector Lead at the Network for Learning. Prior to N4L, Carolyn worked for 13 years as a principal, initially at a rural school in Canterbury and then at Wellington’s Tawa Intermediate, which was one of the first New Zealand schools to adopt a Creative Commons policy.

Dave Lane, President, NZ Open Source Society

Dave is the President of the New Zealand Open Source Society. He is also the founder and co-director of Egressive in Christchurch, which was acquired by Catalyst IT in 2012. He is now employed by Catalyst as a Senior Consultant and is a passionate and longtime supporter of open standards, open source and open licensing.

Victoria Leachman, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa)

Victoria is the Rights Advisor for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) and helps promote good copyright practices to New Zealand’s GLAM sector as a member of the Expert Knowledge Exchange programme run by National Services | Te Paerangi. Victoria is instrumental in making high resolution images of Te Papa’s collection available for use and reuse using either Creative Commons licensing or the No Known Copyright Restrictions rights statement via Te Papa’s Collections Online database.

Keitha Booth, Land Information New Zealand

Keitha is the Programme Manager, NZ Open Government Information and Data Programme at Land Information New Zealand. She is also a member of the Digital New Zealand Advisory Board.

Cathy Aronson, Journalist, Editor

Cathy Aronson has been involved in digital media in New Zealand for more than a decade, including helping converge the NZ Herald newsroom as the first staff journalist to become a digital editor and online journalist. She is currently the editor of creative community website The Big Idea and online editor for her local newspaper Local Matters.

OER Foundation Representative

Dr Wayne Mackintosh, Open Education Resource Foundation

Wayne is the founding Director of the OER Foundation and the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Wayne also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation and holds the Commonwealth of Learning Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic.

Legal Team

Andrew Matangi, Buddle Findlay

A consultant with Buddle Findlay, Andrew specialises in intellectual property, information and communications technology (ICT) and commercial contracts.

Richard Best, Best + Hancock

Richard is a sole practitioner at Best + Hancock. He specialises in technology, commercial and public law as well as public sector procurement.

Professor Susy Frankel, Victoria University of Wellington

Susy is a Professor of the Faculty of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law at Victoria University of Wellington. Susy is Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). Her publications include the treatise Intellectual Property In New Zealand (2nd Ed, Lexis Nexis, 2011).

Paul Sumpter, University of Auckland

An intellectual property specialist, Paul is the author of Intellectual Property Principles in Practice,Trade Marks in Practice and a co-author of Copyright and Design. He is member of the Copyright Tribunal of New Zealand (since 2004) and is a consultant to the national law firm Chapman Tripp.

Melanie Johnson, University of Auckland

Melanie is the Copyright Officer at the University of Auckland.

We also have a wonderful team of volunteers around Aotearoa who help us out in all kinds of ways. Thank you!