NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework

Draft New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework

The draft New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework  has been released for discussion and feedback.

You are invited to comment on this draft. Please join the discussion on the SSC's In Development blog at  http://blog.e.govt.nz/index.php/2009/08/27/draft-open-access-and-licensing-framework-released/ or email nzgoal@ssc.govt.nz.

 Background Information

The Suggested All-of-Government Approach to Licensing of Public Sector Copyright Works: Discussion Paper  and the Summary and Analysis of Departmental Feedback are also released today to provide further background.

Those who read all three documents (the draft NZGOAL, the Discussion Paper and the Summary and Analysis of Departmental Feedback) will see that we have changed our approach slightly from that envisaged in the Discussion Paper and the Summary and Analysis of Departmental Feedback. The main changes are as follows:

• Rather than adopting what we had referred to as an NZGILF and NZGILF Toolkit, we are now proposing a core framework (the draft NZGOAL) which will be supplemented by guidance notes addressing either specific topics on which further information may be required or issues which arise in practice.
• A number of topics identified in the Summary and Analysis of Departmental Feedback as being appropriate candidates for the core framework document (the draft NZGOAL) are now more likely to be addressed in separate guidance notes.
• While, in the Summary and Analysis of Departmental Feedback, we had contemplated a potential place for the Creative Commons Zero tool, we have decided not to advocate its use in NZGOAL. Suggesting to agencies that they consider waiving Crown copyright or other copyright in their copyright works (which would be the effect of advocating Creative Commons Zero) would raise a miscellany of policy and legal issues that are beyond the scope of NZGOAL. Moreover, we do not consider the use of Creative Commons Zero to be necessary.
   

 27 August 2009