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01 Mar 09

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Comments on the Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data

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Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data
Protocol gives 3 basic reasons for preferring the ‘PD’ approach
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- I am not really convinced by any of these points that attribution or share-alike provisions should not be included in open data licenses
- the protocol does not discuss any of the possible attractions of allowing such provisions
- application of obligations based on copyright in situations where it is not necessary
- non-copyrightable elements extends to the entire database and inadvertently infringe
- If intellectual property rights are involved
- requirements carrying a stiff penalty for failure
- interpretative problems
- selective waiving of intellectual property rights

11 Feb 09

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data: Openness and Licensing

Why bother about openness and licensing for data? After all they don’t matter in themselves: what we really care about are things like the progress of human knowledge or the freedom to understand and share.

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Why bother about openness and licensing for data
It’s crucial because open data is so much easier to break-up and recombine, to use and reuse.
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- want people to have incentives to make their data open and for open data to be easily usable and reusable
- good definition of openness acts as a standard that ensures different open datasets are ‘interoperable’
- Licensing is important because it reduces uncertainty. Without a license you don’t know where you, as a user, stand: when are you allowed to use this data? Are you allowed to give to others? To distribute your own changes, etc?
- licensing and definitions are important even though they are only a small part of the overall picture
- If we get them wrong they will keep on getting in the way of everything else.
- Everyone agrees that requiring attribution is OK
  - My opinion is that there should be no requirements, including attribution, and that standards should be community-based instead of legal. - on 2009-02-11
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- Even if a basic license is used it can be argued that any ‘requirements’ for attribution or share-alike should not be in a license but in ‘community norms’.
  - Licenses and community norms are not exclusive. It's recommended to adopt a Public Domain license, and encourage attribution through community standards. - on 2009-02-11
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- A license is likely to elicit at least as much, and almost certainly more, conformity with its provisions than community norms.
  - Ease of access and should be the goal, not conformity. - on 2009-02-11
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- (even to a user it is easy to comply with the open license)
  - It is important to specifically publish using a Public Domain dedication. - on 2009-02-11
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01 Feb 09

Cofundos.org - community innovation and funding

A bookmarklet for CKAN to facilitate the registration of knowledge packages. CKAN is an open registry of open knowledge packages - from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata. For more details see ckan.net and the ckan page on the Open Knowledge Foundation wiki.

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29 Oct 08

PublicDomainCalculators - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

As part of the Public Domain Works project, we wanted to create an algorithm to determine whether or not a certain work was in the public domain, given certain details such as date of publication, date of death of author, and so on.

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Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » Third COMMUNIA Workshop - Marking the public domain

The third COMMUNIA workshop ‘Marking the public domain: relinquishment & certification’ (which we mentioned last week) took place in Amsterdam on Monday and Tuesday.

It brought together COMMUNIA members and other relevant parties from across Europe for talks and workshops focusing on legal issues related to the public domain, and how public domain works can be found and re-used.

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08 Oct 08

Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information, 1st November 2008

We are pleased to announce a workshop on ‘Finding and Re-using Public Information’, co-organised with the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), the Power of Information (POI) Taskforce and mySociety. Details are as follows:

* When: Saturday 1st November 2008, 1030-1600
* Where: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS. (See map.)
* Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicInformation
* Participation: Attendance is free. If you are planning to come along please add your name to the participants list, or email us (info at the okfn domain).

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