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Just a quick note that I did an interview with the Semantic Web Company on open data licensing, which is now up on their site:
Jordan S. Hatcher: “Why we can’t use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software.“
Comments welcome!

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So no surprise I’ve been thinking more and more about semantic web technologies and the law, given my recent trips and talks on open data. This represents some of my early-stage thinking about how copyright plays into the coming framework.
For those not familiar with this area, my big picture layman’s summary of the semantic web [...]

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Slides are now up for my presentation as part of the International Semantic Web Conference tutorial, Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web.  Thanks to Leigh, Kaitlin, and Tom for their excellent presentations, as well as thanks to the audience for such great questions! Open Data and the Law.
UPDATE Everyone’s [...]

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Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web

Sunday 25 October 2009, Washington, DC
I’m really pleased to be participating in an open data tutorial at this year’s International Semantic Web Conference in Washington DC, together with Leigh and Tom from Talis and Kaitlin from Science Commons. Thanks to Talis for helping get me over [...]

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I’m off today to the 1st London Linked Data Meetup (Meetup.com registration) at the Hammersmith Club in London. I’m hoping to speak on Open Data Commons as well as see my friends from Talis including catching up with Talis alum and linked data powerplayer Paul Miller.
Also a heads up that I’m really pleased to be [...]

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Thanks for all the donations to come to Amsterdam to speak at State of the Map.

By mgilbir – CC-BY at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgilbir/3716465898/
I had a great time and really enjoyed getting to meet many of you. We raised 175 pounds and my total expenses ended up being:

€124 for return train travel Reading, UK to Amsterdam (savings [...]

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Re-reading the Digital Britain report today and came across this quote:
Public Service data and content play an increasingly important role in the digital economy. The Government has embraced the vision of the Power of Information Task Force and, in respect of important data sources for innovation, such as geospatial data, agencies are significantly improving access [...]

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I’ve been working on my presentation for State of the Map this weekend – thanks everyone for the feedback and for the donations. Rufus called me last night, and currently we have (rough guesstimate due to currency differences) 150£
…which is about a quarter of the way there towards funding my trip to speak. Thanks [...]

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Just a quick note to say that I’ll be speaking tomorrow afternoon about the Open Database Licnence and Open Data at this year’s OpenTech in London. Stop by and say hi.

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I’ve booked my travel and am in the midst of preparing my talk at State of the Map (SOTM) 2009 in Amsterdam.
Throughout co-founding Open Data Commons and drafting the Open Database Licence (ODbL), I’ve spent several hundred hours of attorney time, all donated pro bono. While I’m more than happy to donate more time to [...]

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