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International Commons: Austria

The Austria license has now been integrated into the Creative Commons licensing process, so you are able to license your works under this jurisdiction's law.

Many thanks to all who contributed to the license-porting process. This page remains for reference.

Please take a look at the mailing-list archive if you are interested in the academic discussion leading to the Austria final license.

Creative Commons is working with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) on porting the Creative Commons licenses to Austria.

iCommons Austria List

Project Lead: Georg Pleger (Austrian Computer Society) and Julia Kueng (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

More about the Austrian Computer Society (OCG)

The objective of the Austrian Computer Society is the comprehensive and interdisciplinary promotion of information processing, with due regard to its effects on man and society. In fulfilling this objective, the Society performs these primary functions:

  • It serves as an umbrella organization of associations, organizations, and institutions in Austria involved in information processing (32 institutional members at this time).
  • It represents Austria in the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and in similar regional associations (e.g. CEPIS - the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies - and IMIA - the International Medical Informatics Association).
  • It is affiliate member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) and of the IEEE Computer Society.
  • It provides members with services, information and consultation.
  • It promotes research and development projects, especially those of an interdisciplinary nature.
  • It organizes international conferences and congresses and helps its member institutions to organize such events.
  • It has established several Working Groups dealing with specialized aspects in the field of information technology. One of these Working Groups is the OCG Open Source Software Plattform with it's subgroup focussing on Open Content and Creative Commons, coordinated by Georg Pleger and Jodok Batlogg. Georg Pleger is also the organizational project lead for Creative Commons Austria.

At this time the Austrian Computer Society has more than 900 individual members and more than 100 supporting and institutional members.