Category Archives: Licensing

Wikipedia to support migration to CC-BY-SA licensing

Posted on 3 December 2007 by Jordan

Wikipedia is currently under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), a licence that causes incompatibility problems with the content also being released under Creative Commons licenses. At a party in San Francisco on Friday, Jimmmy Wales announced that the Wikimedia … Continue reading →

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New upload – Open Data handout and presentation

Posted on 28 November 2007 by Jordan

I gave a talk on the 23rd of November on database rights and open data, as mentioned earlier on this blog. I’ve uploaded the handout and presentation from my talk last week on open data and database licensing for the … Continue reading →

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'CC-0': A new Creative Commons licence in the works

Posted on 26 November 2007 by Jordan

Hidden in an announcement about Public.Resource.org releasing US federal court opinions on its site (these works are not in copyright), Creative Commons and the Public.Resource.org press release mentions “CC-0″: The cases will be marked with a new Creative Commons mark … Continue reading →

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Report now out!

Posted on 16 November 2007 by Jordan

See the survey site for the report, appendices will be posted shortly. Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007 The survey was funded and supported by Eduserv, and special thanks to … Continue reading →

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Open Data Commons brief update

Posted on 16 November 2007 by Jordan

So there has been some behind-the scenes work on the Open Data Commons licences, not all of which I can mention at the moment because of confidentiality reasons. What I can say is that we are working on a new … Continue reading →

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Open data and database law – Glasgow, 23 Nov.

Posted on 16 November 2007 by Jordan

I’ll be speaking on open data and legal issues such as copyright and the European sui generis database right in Glasgow on Friday, the 23rd of November. Full details: Joint DCC and SCRIPTed Workshop on the Legal Environment of Digital … Continue reading →

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Cultural heritage report out soon

Posted on 2 November 2007 by Jordan

I know many of you are eagerly awaiting the forthcoming report on the use of open content licensing in the UK cultural heritage sector. The report, funded and supported by Eduserv, is complete and is going through a final internal … Continue reading →

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Update process for a 3.01 Creative Commons licence launched

Posted on 12 October 2007 by Jordan

Just 8 months after CC versioned up to 3.0, Creative Commons has announced a new round of public comments for a 3.01. The big change is to clarify the language in the unported version of the licence in regards to … Continue reading →

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Defining "technological measures"

Posted on 8 October 2007 by Jordan

Andres Guadamuz of Technollama has suggested in the comments that “technological measures” in Section 4.6 of the Open Data Commons Database Licence be defined. For reference, Section 4.6 is: 4.6 Technological measures and additional terms a. This Licence does not … Continue reading →

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Accessibility of databases licensed under the ODCDBL

Posted on 1 October 2007 by Jordan

Some more food for thought on the Open Data Commons Database Licence. This time about obligations to make the database available, either as a part of an obligation under the parallel distribution language in Section 4.6b, or as a general … Continue reading →

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