Open Data Licensing

Timothy VollmerJordan Hatcher

Open DataCommons

OKCon 2011, Berlin, 1st July

© Copyright 2010. All Rights Reserved.

open licensing <● lawyers● money● paperwork● time

OpenDataCommons.orgLegal tools for Open Data

● Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

● Attribution only (Open Data Commons - BY)

● Open Database License (ODbL) (+ DbCL)

Legal solutions for open data:(some options)

Open Data Commons

Creative Commons

● CC0 and public domain assertion tool

● CC licenses --> only CC-BY or CC-BY-SA

Six CC licences

● Attribution (BY)

● Attribution | No Derivatives (BY-ND)

● Attribution | Non-Commercial | No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

● Attribution | Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

● Attribution | Non-Commercial | Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

● Attribution | Share Alike (BY-SA)

Creative Commons and open data[bases]

● Develops, supports, stewards legal and tech infrastructure for sharing on web

● 2010: 400M

● includes licensing and PD solutions for data[bases]

● people have licensed data[bases] under CC since 2001

Why the extra care about data[bases] now?

● explosion in data sharing; if permitted uses not clear, chaos rules

● in general increasing adoption of licensing solutions for data[bases]

○ CC licenses, CC0, PDDL, ODC-BY, ODbL

● primary threat = not sharing/proprietary data

● what should CC's role be? shift from tool supplier to commons steward

● if yes, put global scalability, interoperability, standards at front

Ongoing interoperability challenges

● incompatible open licenses (copyleft mostly)● proliferation of semi-custom terms● use of non-open public licenses (NC, ND)● no licensing, ad hoc sharing, no sharing

...and related

● CC licenses inadequately address sui generis database rights; thus entered ODC, OGL, etc.

● communications/perception problem that CC not appropriate for data

● many agree: publicly funded science should be PD

CC license version 4.0

● process starting soon; need your help

● will address big and small; "future proof" the licenses

● top of interoperability "fix list" is sui generis db rights handling

● licensing db rights, like copyright, to extent applies--this is one option, and needs extreme care

● many CC affiliate stakeholders

● Warsaw Sept 2011 = CC Global Summit

Open KnowledgeFoundation

+

cooperation and coordination

education and usability

consensus principles

license interoperability

Open Data Licensing

Timothy VollmerJordan Hatcher

Open DataCommons

OKCon 2011, Berlin, 1st July

Farmhouse with Silos HDR by ajagendorf25 CC-BY http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajagendorf25/3033960008/

Question mark and arrowCC-BY laurkgibbshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/3635356091/

All other trademarks are copyright / trademark their respective owners. Some works may appear here under exceptions or exclusions to copyright and trademark law such as fair use / fair dealing and are not covered by the CC license over this work and these exclusions or exceptions may not apply to you.