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

The latest version of the licenses available for this jurisdiction are:

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 New Zealand final license.

Creative Commons is working with Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities to create New Zealand jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses.

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Project Lead: Dr Brian Opie
Legal Team: Associate Professor Susy Frankel, Andrew Matangi, Paul Sumpter

More about Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for The Humanities

The Humanities Trust of Aotearoa New Zealand

Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities is a charitable trust. The Trust Board includes among its members leaders in academic, cultural and public sector organisations. Its objective is to promote recognition of the value of the humanities-aronui in the creation, conservation and transmission of knowledge essential to personal well-being and the cultural, social and economic development of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities is committed to recognising the importance of matauranga Maori as an indigenous taonga and its unique role in establishing and supporting the contemporary strategic development of the humanities in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Council is further committed to facilitating the ongoing involvement by Maori scholastic communities in achieving the mission and goals of the Council. For more information, refer to http://www.humanities.org.nz.

Examples of this work include:

The Humanities Research Network Te Whatunga Rangahau Aronui — “Linking Minds and Energies in the Arts, Culture and the Humanities”

Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand — The Council for the Humanities is leading the project to establish Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand in 2007. The Creative Commons site is being managed by the Humanities Research Network Board.