This is big news for Intellectual property, big news for Queensland, Australia, and big news for creative commons.
No its not an older MILF; GILF is the Government of Queensland, Australia’s world leading Information Licencing programme which represents a great leap forward in Government policy in making information available with transparent legality.
GILF is another brainchild of the already awesome Queensland Spatial Information Council, or QSIC (Government department where geographical, cartographical, and IT knowledge combine).
The GILF enables custodians to allocate, and for users to understand, the legally permitted uses of information products.
GILF comprises:
- an information policy statement, supporting principles and implementation advice
- a series of questions (a legal status review) to assist information custodians within the public sector to determine the copyright owner of an information product, the intellectual property contained in an information product, and the use rights, or licence, that can be applied to an information product
- a set of 6 standard licences from the Creative Commons open-content licences which can be applied to the majority of copyright government information
- a restrictive licence for releasing confidential or commercial information in a secure way to authorised parties (eg for research or in order to improve government services)
- digital licence-management software.
Tags: Creative Commons, GILF, QSIC
