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[Kevin Pomfret]

Recent update to spatial law blog.

http://spatiallaw.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-york-citys-plans-to-collect-s
patial.html

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Today's Topics:

   1. GUIDE TO OPEN DATA LICENSING (Roger Longhorn)
   2. Copyright applicable to geodata? (Kate Lance)


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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:10:55 +0200
From: Roger Longhorn <ral at alum.mit.edu>
Subject: [GSDI Legal Econ] GUIDE TO OPEN DATA LICENSING
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GUIDE TO OPEN DATA LICENSING
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Over the last month we?ve been working to produce a Guide to Open Data
Licensing. As the name should make clear this is a guide to licensing
data
aimed particularly at those who want to make their data open.

At present it is roughly divided into two sections. The first section
deals with the practical question of how to license your data. The
second
section discusses what kinds of intellectual property-like rights exist
in
data in various jurisdictions.

This guide is very much in an ?alpha? state and we?d welcome corrections
or contributions. So please, check it out and feel free to make changes!

Open Data Licensing <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/OpenDataLicensing>

Ends

Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu



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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:17:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kate Lance <klance_remote at yahoo.com>
Subject: [GSDI Legal Econ] Copyright applicable to geodata?
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in case you missed this -- a blog-stream on the legal status of data and
what approaches to use when licensing it. 
 
http://blog.okfn.org/2007/04/01/copyright-not-applicable-to-geodata/
Copyright not applicable to geodata?
 
Following this dialogue in April, the Open Knowledge Foundation started
working on a guide to help answer the questions about open data
licensing. It recently has been released...  in an ?alpha? state,
meaning much still can be done to improve and extend it.  They're
working on it in the wiki precisely so that anyone may edit it and they
welcome contributions ? whether that means adding new sections and use
cases or just fixing typos. The first section deals with the practical
question of how to license data. The second section discusses what kinds
of rights (intellectual property or other) exist in data in various
jurisdictions. See: Guide to Open Data Licensing,
http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenDataLicensing 

Source: Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog


       
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