Creative Commons Australia announced today the release of Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, a book collecting a number of essays about copyright and open content licensing in teh Australian context. It’s edited by Brian Fitzgerarld, who leads Australia’s CC project. It draws on a 2005 conference, but given the speed at which Australian copyright laws change (glacier speed), it’s findings and commentaries are entirely in keeping with the current Australian copyright landscape.

The book can either be purchased in hardcopy from Sydney University Press or individual articles are available for download from Sydney’s eScholarship Repository.

Given the many confusing layers of copyright law in Australia, I think this book will prove very useful in navigating these licensing waters both for those in creative industries and educators grappling with these issues.