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Speaking at OpenTech on Saturday

July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Conferences · Open data

Help me speak at State of the Map!

July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Conferences · Open data

ODbL released

July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Open Data Commons, an OKF affiliated project, has now released v1.0 of the Open Database License (ODbL) after 6 months of consultation. The Open Database License (ODbL) is an open share-alike license for data and databases.
This license, the first of its kind, is a major step forward for open data as there are few license [...]

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DISC-UK DataShare project outputs

June 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Bit late in posting this, but Robin Rice of DISC-UK DataShare posted their final project reports, which should be of interest to readers of this blog with an interest in data:
Some of you may be interested in our final report for the DataShare project, available at  http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/336/ or the one page executive summary is available [...]

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UK Open Source GIS conference 22 June 2009

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments

The website for the conference is now up:
The Centre for Geospatial Science of University of Nottingham, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (UK Chapter), ICA Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies, SOSoRNET and Open Knowledge Foundation are organizing the First Open Source GIS UK Conference on 22nd June (Monday), 2009 at the University of Nottingham.
http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/ for [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Open data

New CC0 beta draft

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Via the Creative Commons blog, Diane Peters CC’s General Counsel has introduced the latest draft of their public domain licensing / dedication tool CC0:
We are pleased to release for public comment the next beta draft of CC0 Waiver, which comes several months after the last draft of CC0 was published in April. You can [...]

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Tags: Creative Commons · Licensing · Open data

Speaking - State of the Map 12-13 July

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Just a quick note to say that I’ll be speaking on open data, law, and licensing at State of the Map on 12-13 July in Limerick, Ireland. UPDATE 2 July - will be unable to make it this year due to a schedule conflict. My apologies….
State of the Map is the annual conference for Open [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Licensing · Open data

Information Governance Conference 2008

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

The Society for Computers and the Law (SCL) is having a conference on 1 May on information governance:
Information Governance Conference 2008
Information governance has rapidly become an integral part of organisational strategy in both the public and private sector. Organisations of all types and size are generating ever greater volumes of sensitive data and that [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Creative Commons · Open data

PDDL released

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Just to highlight for opencontentlawyer.com readers, that we released the final version of the Public Domain Dedication and Licence over at Open Data Commons this past weekend. I will post more about the process and the final result when I return to full posting strength in April.

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Tags: Licensing · Open data · Science Commons

Open Data Commons article now up

February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

I have a new article out that I’ve written for the Open Source Business Resource, which is now available in the February issue.
Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons Project
In it, I explain the brief history of the Open Data Commons project and the Public Domain Dedication and Licence, which should be released soon [...]

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