Timothy Vollmer and Jordan Hatcher spoke together about open data licensing at the OKCon 2011. Berlin, Germany. July 1, 2011.

1. Open Data Licensing
OKCon 2011, Berlin, 1st July
Jordan Hatcher Timothy Vollmer
Open Data
Commons

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4. ● lawyers
● money
open licensing < ● paperwork
● time

5. OpenDataCommons.org
Legal tools for Open Data

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)

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)

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

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

17. +
Open Knowledge
Foundation

18. cooperation and
coordination

19. education and
usability

20. consensus principles

21. license interoperability

22. Open Data Licensing
OKCon 2011, Berlin, 1st July
Jordan Hatcher Timothy Vollmer
Open Data
Commons

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