Digital License Management Mark Ducksbury Business Service Management Landgate

Digital License Management

Mark DucksburyBusiness Service Management

Landgate


What this project is about:

Development of an open content licensing model for access and re-use of government information.

Review of internal and Whole of Government policies.

Introduction of the Creative Commons framework through SLIP Enabler.

Digital License ManagementAims: A Government Information Licensing Framework of

standardised legal terms and conditions.

Improved access and use of Government-held data. Standardise transactions with other government

jurisdictions and extend to private sector.

Manage the Government’s Intellectual Property for web-based information.

Reduce legal risks associated with unauthorised use.

Digital License ManagementThe problems for Government:

• Majority of government business units don’t use any formal licensing.

• Current “standard” approaches dated.

• More difficult for Gov agencies to deal with each other.

• Complex for customers - multiple approaches.

• Agencies consider themselves unique business entities. • Licences do not reflect today’s business approach.

Digital License ManagementWhat these problems mean • Confusion and costs for clients, community and

custodians.

• Difficult to design an architecture for an online portals and/or inter-jurisdictional data collaborations (ie.SLIP).

• Difficult for information users to know if they are fully complying with legal obligations.

• Impediment to innovation and loss of potential revenue.

Digital License ManagementDLM Recognises:• Social, economic, cultural and environmental value of public

sector datasets are in their use.

• Action Agenda - Federal Government Report “Unlocking the Potential – Digital Content Industry”.

• ABS and Geoscience Australia data delivery strategy.

• Whole of Government Licensing Strategies.

• Developments in open access publishing. • Gen X, Y and Z attitudes to web use and file sharing.


Components


CRC-SI Project 3.05

Queensland University of Technology

Natural Resources and Water (Qld) Australian Bureau of Statistics

Landgate

Deliverables:• A defined policy framework. • A defined business model. • A defined legal framework for spatial information• A working demonstrator application of DLM, suitable for

integration with real time information systems.

Digital License ManagementProject 3.05 Delivered Outcomes:

Identified conflicting approaches to licensing.

Reviewed national and international initiatives on OCL.

Identified Creative Commons as best practice OCL.

Confirmed its legal validity.


Project 3.05 Future Outcomes:

• Development of Digital Licence Management Software.

• Business Case for Whole of Government implementation.

Landgate’s involvement:

• Provide a prototype DLM system to WA Government for implementation through SLIP Enabler.

• Increase awareness of DLM, Creative Commons and need for a Government Information Licensing Framework.


Landgate’s DLM Project Aims:• Review of Landgate and WALIS policies.

• Increased understanding of Creative Commons and Government information licensing.

• Implementation of the DLM Injector Prototype.

• Creative Commons branding on web data and products.

• CC license details that remain with transferred product.

• Provision of licensing status via open source formats.

• Discovery based on CC license constraints.

• Participation by > 4 WA government agencies and branding of > 50 SLIP Enabler datasets.


What is Creative Commons?

• Licensing system that protects IP rights of data creators whilst encouraging the sharing of that data.

• Minimises administration – consistency/ transparency.

• Applies to any information delivered in any media.

• Defines spectrum b/w full copyright and public domain.

• CC licences allow creators to retain a "some rights reserved" copyright.

• Predetermined set of licensing terms and conditions.

• “CC makes copyright active” for web-based information.


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ViewView

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EmbedEmbed

TransportTransport

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Add ValueAdd ValueShareShare

IntegrateIntegrate

Revised Approach to Licensing Recognises the rights custodians want to give.Recognises the rights users want to have.

Digital License ManagementCreative Commons licences are relatively clear and simple

BY Attribution

BY-NC Attribution - Non Commercial

BY-SA Attribution - Share Alike

BY-ND Attribution - No Derivatives

BY-NC-SA Attribution - Non Commercial - Share Alike

BY-NC-ND Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives

Is commercial use allowed?

Attribution is a condition for all Australian Creative Commons licences.

Where a government owns a copyrighted piece of

information, attribution affirms the government’s right to be

acknowledged as the source of that information along with a legal right to license its use.

ATTRIBUTION SHARE ALIKE

ATTRIBUTIONNO DERIVATIVES

ATTRIBUTION

No

ATTRIBUTIONNON-COMMERCIAL


NO DERIVATIVES


SHARE ALIKE

Are derivative products allowed?

No

Are derivative products to be restricted to a share-alike basis?

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

BY-NC-SA

BY

BY-SA

BY-ND

BY-NC

BY-NC-NDAre derivative products allowed?

No

Are derivative products to be restricted to a share-alike basis?

Yes

No

Yes

Creative Commons licensing is easily applied

Digital License ManagementC

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Creative Commons + Restrictive = Govt. Information Licences

Data Volumes

85%Open Content – Creative Commons

15%Closed Content – Restrictive Set


Creative Commons Licences are Understandable

Human-ReadableCommons Deed

Lawyer-ReadableLegal Code

Machine-Readable Digital Code

Licences are Legally Valid – Analysis by QUT on Aust. jurisdictions

Licences are Widely Used – 299 million CC resources on net

– 66,967 Australian CC resources

– Google and Yahoo - CC search


What Benefits will DLM provide?• Easy link from data to licence.

• Find information based on its license.

• Clear licence branding on data.

• Suitable for integration into portal applications.

How does CC help provide these benefits?• Embedded licence metadata in files.

• Watermarking to include CC logos – link to license.

Examples of Digital Licence Management – OESR website:

http://www.oesr.qld.gov.au/about-our-services/policy/gilf-project.shtml


Risks of not standardising IP for government:• Inability to manage public information as an asset.

• Loss of business opportunities for government.

• Direct losses through litigation for copyright infringement.

• Potential liability for criminal prosecution.

• Losses - inefficient cataloguing/metadata classification.

• Continuing confusion for government and info users.


Value of standard CC licensing approach:

• Simple, Uniform and User-accepted.

• Legally Interoperable, applicable in over 50 countries.

• Technically interoperable and applicable to 85% of data.

• Legally tested and applicable to Government.


Sample View of Mozilla Browzer


Sample MS Word


Landgate Deliverables - Project Timeline

WA GILF Policy Q1 2009

WA GILF License Set Q1 2009

WA Legal Status Review Q1 2009

Custodianship/Data Guidelines Q2 2009

WMS Injector Q2/3 2009

GML Injector Q2/3 2009

Map Server working with DLM Q3/4 2009

SLIP DLM Implementation Q3/4 2009

www.landgate.wa.gov.au

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Digital License Management Mark Ducksbury Business Service Management Landgate