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The Future of Open Information:Open government data and beyond...
Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM
Board of Directors, Open Knowledge FoundationCo-founder, Open Data Commons Lawyer and strategy consultant in IP/ITwww.jordanhatcher.com
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We promote open knowledge
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• Use
• Reuse
• Redistribute
• Commercial use allowed
• Attribution & Share Alike requirements = okay
“open”
www.opendefinition.org
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“genes to geo-data and sonnets to statistics”
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OKF work
• Standards - Open Definition; Open Government Data Principles; Open Data Commons
• Infrastructure & Tools – CKAN; kforge; datapkg
• Open Knowledge Production – PSI, Public Domain Works, WDMMG
• Events, Workshops, and Working Groups – OKcon; open data workshops; EU Open Data WG; Open Government Data WG
• Community Support – very active
• Propose your own!
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OpenDataCommons.org
Legal tools for Open Data
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Structure of session
• Introductions
•Background on what’s happening
•FOI
•Open Government Data
• Intro to Open Data Licensing
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“Has the open information revolution run its course or just begun?”
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“Has the open information revolution run its course or just begun?”
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Structure of session
• Introductions
•Background on what’s happening
•FOI
•Open Government Data
•Open Data Licensing
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FOI = reactive
Open Government Data = proactive
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(FOI)
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Structure of session
• Introductions
•Background on what’s happening
•FOI
•Open Government Data
•Open Data Licensing
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(a short tour)
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(why?)
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Consumer of content
Finding stuff (software, content, databases)
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Options
1. Ask for a licence.
2. Use under an exception (fair use or fair dealing).
3. Infringe
4. Use something else
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Options
1. Ask for a licence.
2. Use under an exception (fair use or fair dealing).
3. Infringe
4. Use something else
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Releasing your stuff
Producer of content
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Pirates or partners? You decide...
(and remix)
data
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Approaches to p2p
• No rights reserved - Public domain
• Some rights reserved -open licensing
• All rights reserved - Soft enforcement
• All rights reserved - Heavy enforcement
(and remix)
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(a licensing example)
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“You may extract, download, and make copies of the information contained in the Datasets, and you may share that information with third parties.”
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/0,,contentMDK:22547097~pagePK:50016803~piPK:50016805~theSitePK:13,00.html
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Structure of session
• Introductions
•Background on what’s happening
•FOI
•Open Government Data
•Open Data Licensing
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Open data is the application of many the same principles and philosophies as free and open source software and open content projects such as Creative Commons to data and databases.
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• Use
• Reuse
• Redistribute
• Commercial use allowed
• Attribution & Share Alike requirements = okay
“open”
www.opendefinition.org
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GPL, FSF, OSI, BSD... = softwareCreative Commons... = content
Data is different from software and content both legally and in what you do with it
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OpenDataCommons.org
Legal tools for Open Data
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• No Public Domain tool for databases existed
• Demand for a share alike database license & CC seen as poor fit
OpenDataCommons
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• Open Database License (ODbL) (+ DbCL)
• Attribution only (Open Data Commons - BY)
• Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Legal solutions for open data:(some options)
Open Data Commons
Creative Commons
• CC0 and public domain assertion tool
• CC licenses (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) though not for everyone)
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Open Database License (ODbL)
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http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
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Open Data Commons Attribution License
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/
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Public Domain Dedication & License (PDDL)
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PDDL
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
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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)
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• Open Database License (ODbL) (+ DbCL)
• Attribution only (Open Data Commons - BY)
• Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Legal solutions for open data:(some options)
Open Data Commons
Creative Commons
• CC0 and public domain assertion tool
• CC licenses (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) though not for everyone)
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(final thoughts)
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Software Content Data
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Diffusion of Innovations / Technology Adoption Curve
OpenData
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“Has the open information revolution run its course or just begun?”
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opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010
18-19 November, London
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Thanks!
www.okfn.org/
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/
Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM
Email: jordan DOT hatcher ]at[ okfn DOT org
Avaliable on slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/jordanhatcher www.jordanhatcher.com
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Question mark and arrowCC-BY laurkgibbshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/3635356091/
two hats talking to each other by sleepyneko CC-BY-SAhttp://flickr.com/photos/ejchang/558997184/
LOD cloud licensing diagram - Leigh Dodds - ISWC 2009 CC-BY<http://www.ldodds.com/tmp/iswc-legal-frameworks-overview.pdf><http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/ISWC_2009_Tutorials/Legal_and_Social_Frameworks_for_Sharing_Data_on_the_Web>
London MapMap data CC-BY-SA Open Street Map and contributors
An empty tin can.by Sun Ladder, CC-BY-SAhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Empty_tin_can2009-01-19.jpg
Richard Stallman (public domain)http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_-_Denmark_DTU_2007-3-31.jpg
Larry Lessig – Lessig portrait by Notwist CC-BY 2.0http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lessig_portrait.jpgCrop of Lawrence Lessig freesouls hero.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_Lessig_freesouls_hero.jpg
The original Tux, the official Linux mascot created by Larry Ewing in 1996: Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided you acknowledge lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if someone asks.
All other trademarks are copyright / trademark their respective owners. Some works, such as screenshots, 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.
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Thanks!
www.okfn.org/
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/
Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM
Email: jordan DOT hatcher ]at[ okfn DOT org
Avaliable on slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/jordanhatcher www.jordanhatcher.com
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