The QUT Creative Commons and Open Content Licensing conference in January 2005 brought together leading thinkers on the internet, law and the importance of open content licensing in the digital age. (see my posts on Day 1 and Day 2 and video streams of the conference).

Drawing on the material presented Sydney University Press has now published Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, edited by conference convenor Professor Brian Fitzgerald.

It is an excellent resource not just on legal issues but also for case studies on projects as disparate as art, education and gaming.

Both the hardcopy and the electronic version of the book have been published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives licence.

A PDF of the entire work can be downloaded for free from the QUT e-Prints Archive. Individual chapters can be downloaded here.

via The House of Commons.