Slides from Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Science Commons, CSIC/OECD Conference on Research Use of Patents, Madrid, May 2006 (1.4MB PDF)

“Open Content Licencing (OCL) for Open Educational Resources” paper presented by Brian Fitzgerald at the OECD Expert Meeting on Open Educational Resources in Malmö, Sweden on 6 and 7 February 2006.

B Fitzgerald and Nic Suzor, “Legal Issues For the Use of Free and Open Source Software in Government” (2005) 29 Melbourne University Law Review 412

B Fitzgerald and G Bassett (eds.), Legal Issues Relating to Free and Open Source Software (2003)

Pictured below, Brian Fitzgerald was a panelist at the Yale Access to Knowledge Conference on 23 April 2006.

Presentation at the Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee (ARIIC) Projects Meeting on 30 March 2006.

A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository

This guide examines and explains the copyright issues involved in depositing and accessing material in
digital repositories. The guide focuses on effective management and promotion of digital repositories
and in doing so, examines the relationships between the parties involved in the deposit and access
process. Licensing requirements and options are also considered in detail. Finally, the guide touches on
more technical considerations, such as software and metadata.

Copyright Guide for Research Students: What you need to know about copyright before depositing your electronic thesis in an online repository

This guide is designed to assist research students in managing copyright issues which they may encounter
in writing and depositing their electronic thesis in an online repository. The guide provides a broad
overview of copyright law and importantly addresses critical issues relating to the inclusion of third
party copyright material in a students thesis. The guide aims to simplify these issues through the
inclusion of two model third party copyright permission requests, which students can use to obtain
permission from the copyright owner before including third party material.