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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Open data'
Open data and database law - Glasgow, 23 Nov.
November 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Conferences · Licensing · Open data
Update process for a 3.01 Creative Commons licence launched
October 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Licensing · Open content · Open data
Defining “technological measures”
October 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Downloads of Open Data Commons Factual Info Licence
October 1st, 2007 · Comments Off
Downloads now available of the Open Data Commons Factual Information Licence:
PDF | ODT
Accessibility of databases licensed under the ODCDBL
October 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Purpose of the Open Data Commons Factual Info Licence
September 28th, 2007 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Science Commons and the Open Data Commons
September 27th, 2007 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Downloads of Open Data Commons Database Licence available
September 27th, 2007 · Comments Off
After a slight delay, PDF and ODT versions of the Database licence are now available.
PDF Link
ODT Link
Tags: Downloads · Licensing · Open data
More contract - is the ODC DB Licence maximalist?
September 26th, 2007 · Comments Off
Another comment from a mailing list:
This looks like it’s falling into what I’ll call “the maximalist paradox” — That is the intention to “free” even more culture by instituting more laws that can be leveraged in a copyleft way to protect basic freedoms.
Another example is when the FSF tries to argue that using a [...]
Open Data Commons - Contracts and factual information
September 26th, 2007 · Comments Off
Another set of questions, this time on the FSF-Europe list
I’m slightly concerned about the triple-whammy of database licensing, copyright licensing and a contract.
The reason why database rights and copyright are in the same licence is because they overlap in some cases (in Europe anyway), and so in order to clear both you need a [...]
