First Session was a panel on Government and Public Institutions approach to open content licensing.
What became clear was that there was no taxonomy or system for government to assess its copyright holdings (as proposed by Terry Cutler) so that it could not even determine what it should make available for access (whether free or paid) to encourage creativity and innovation. Discussion revealed that the Queensland Government at least is reviewing its default position that if it contracts for work then it gets the copyright to one that is negotiable, case by case. There was some discussion from Copyright Agency about whether government should get copyright from creators in return for grants. Examples of practical implementation such as online teaching and research, digitisation of art collections and filmmakers were discussed.

It became clear that government policy on copyright ownership was ambiguous.

The session concluded by noting again that Creative Commons was not an economic model but a driver for access to copyright material.

The second and last session presented 2 case studies: Aesharenet (an example of licensing in the education sector) and Open Digital Rights Language, which started discussion about the role of DRM in open content.

The conference closed on the note that much policy work needs to be done. Perhaps Queensland can be a leader!