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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Creative Commons has just launched a new legal tool for discussion known as CCZero, and I’m going to go through the current version and comment. Cool scalpel pic from Wikipedia and in the public domain.
As readers will know, I was the primary drafter, together with Dr. Charlotte Waelde, on a Talis-funded project that produced the [...]

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We’ve created a site solely for the Open Data Commons project. This is the continuation of all of the work we’ve been doing over here at opencontentlawyer.
I’ve crossposted below the announcement of the new set of legal tools on the Open Data Commons site. The original post is here.
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The new Open Data Commons set of [...]

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