[tommorris]

This goes a little off-topic, but you might be pleasantly surprised about Crown Copyright.

Crown Copyright doesn't deal with university research, only with works done by the government. Pretty much everything released by central government is now licensed through the UK Government Licensing Framework under the Open Government License (OGL), which is essentially CC-BY.

See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licen...

Examples of loads of photos and documents that Wikimedia have taken copies of (and often reusing) under the OGL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:OGL

[xxpor]

That's good to know! I guess I was a little out of date, I mostly saw this come up when there was a big push to get stuff on en.wikipedia moved to commons, and all of the UK/AU/CA content couldn't be moved for obvious reasons.

[tommorris]

Canada has their own version of the OGL too. Dunno about Australia.

https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada