6. Legal solutions for open data:
(some options)
Creative Commons
● CC0 and public domain assertion tool
● CC licenses --> only CC-BY or CC-BY-SA
Open Data Commons
● Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
● Attribution only (Open Data Commons - BY)
● Open Database License (ODbL) (+ DbCL)
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10. Six CC licences
● Attribution (BY)
● Attribution | No Derivatives (BY-ND)
● Attribution | Non-Commercial | No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
● Attribution | Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
● Attribution | Non-Commercial | Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)
● Attribution | Share Alike (BY-SA)
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12. Creative Commons and open data[bases]
● Develops, supports, stewards legal and tech
infrastructure for sharing on web
● 2010: 400M
● includes licensing and PD solutions for data[bases]
● people have licensed data[bases] under CC since
2001
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14. Why the extra care about data[bases] now?
● explosion in data sharing; if permitted uses not clear,
chaos rules
● in general increasing adoption of licensing solutions for
data[bases]
○ CC licenses, CC0, PDDL, ODC-BY, ODbL
● primary threat = not sharing/proprietary data
● what should CC's role be? shift from tool supplier to
commons steward
● if yes, put global scalability, interoperability, standards at
front
15. Ongoing interoperability challenges
● incompatible open licenses (copyleft mostly)
● proliferation of semi-custom terms
● use of non-open public licenses (NC, ND)
● no licensing, ad hoc sharing, no sharing
...and related
● CC licenses inadequately address sui generis
database rights; thus entered ODC, OGL, etc.
● communications/perception problem that CC not
appropriate for data
● many agree: publicly funded science should be PD
16. CC license version 4.0
● process starting soon; need your help
● will address big and small; "future proof" the
licenses
● top of interoperability "fix list" is sui generis db rights
handling
● licensing db rights, like copyright, to extent applies--
this is one option, and needs extreme care
● many CC affiliate stakeholders
● Warsaw Sept 2011 = CC Global Summit
22. Open Data Licensing
OKCon 2011, Berlin, 1st July
Jordan Hatcher Timothy Vollmer
Open Data
Commons
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