Creative Commons Australia created 50 case studies on organizations using Creative Commons licenses to achieve several goals: continued research on CC issues in Australia, building CC awareness, and expanding available CC information. They surveyed participants about their work and experiences with CC. This led to creating a wiki with over 150 case studies. The case studies were also published in a book. Next steps included adding trails to the wiki to highlight related case studies, a public campaign promoting CC case studies, and encouraging others to produce additional publications using the case studies.

1. Regional collaborative
projects
Nic Suzor, Creative Commons Australia

2. Case studies

3. RACHEL COBCROFT
CC AUSTRALIA CREATED 50 CASE STUDIES

4. Goals
Continued research on issues related to Creative
Commons and Open Content Licensing in Australia;
Building awareness of the Creative Commons
project in Australia;
Expanding the information available about the
Creative Commons project in Australia;
Providing greater advice and support for projects
that are considering implementing, are in the
process of implementing and/or that have
implemented Creative Commons licences in
Australia; and
Further development of the Creative Commons
Australia licences.

5. Participant surveys
• Describe your organisation (establishing goals, business model, partner
organisations, etc.)
• What are your current projects?
• How did you first hear about Open Content Licences/Creative
Commons?
• Why did you choose to use CC? / Which licence did you select and why?
• How is the licence applied?
• What has been your experience with CC so far – what have been the
benefits and possible problems?
• Do you work collaboratively with other parties?
• Which tools do you use?
• Any other issues you may have come across/comments you'd like to
make?

6. Lots of case studies, but
we wanted more...

7. HOW ABOUT A WIKI?

8. “Sure, we’ve always wanted
one of those”

9. Support from
CC was
crucial
Jon ran with the project,
organised programming
interns, and got it working

10. Support from
CC was
crucial
Mike ensured that there
were staff that could
actually work on the project

11. Lessons
learnt?
“Find one officer who's
enthusiastic about a project to
champion it.”
“Get support from Mike, so
that that enthusiasm is
translated into work hours.”

12. A wiki was
born
150+ case studies and
counting

13. The book
Edited by Rachel Cobcroft
Layout by Elliott Bledsoe
and Merri Randell

14. Next Steps
Break each chapter into
individual PDFs and
standalone booklets
Provide raw in-design files
to allow others to create
more books

15. More case
studies
We will write some more
Encourage the community to
write their own

16. Adding
‘trails’ to the
wiki
Allow users to navigate
through a small number of
highlighted case studies on
related themes

17. Do you CC?
We’d like to run a campaign
that highlights the case
studies to the general public
and encourages them to add
their own case studies.

18. Very useful
Useful in both advocacy and
education presentations.
Audience always wants
examples of who is using CC
licensing and how.

19. More books
We’re encouraging others to
produce their own books
based on the case studies.
General international
publications, or country
specific booklets, or
industry specific handouts...

20. Regional collaborative
projects
Nic Suzor, Creative Commons Australia