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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 Ed Barker, Andy Powell and Pete Johnston from Eduserv for providing guidance and feedback at various stages during [...]

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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 draft that reflects some recent developments, and that it should be available within the next [...]

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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 Curation
23 November 2007
Location: Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow
URL: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/legal-env-dig-cur-2007
This one-day workshop will provide a useful overview [...]

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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 review before release, which will hopefully be within the next 10 days or so.

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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 moral rights. Moral rights include the right to object to derogatory treatment and [...]

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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 allow You to (except subject to Section 4.6 b.) impose any terms or any technological measures on [...]

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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 obligation to make derivative databases (that must comply with the Share Alike language). This comment [...]

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Another comment on FSF Europe, this time about intent and purpose of the Open Data Commons Factual Information Licence. This continues on from a previous post on opencontentlawyer:
There’s also an Open Data Factual Info Licence which puzzles me a bit because *information* is not covered by copyright, only the expression (the licence also seems to [...]

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Another comment from a discussion on Nodalities, this time about Creative Commons and databases:
Science Commons has a page with some explanations regarding Creative Commons and databases. It seems that two of the European versions of the Creative Commons licenses (Belgium and Netherlands) do mention the “database rights”. I’m not sure why this isn’t mentioned in [...]

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After a slight delay, PDF and ODT versions of the Database licence are now available.
PDF Link
ODT Link

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