[Rdap] licensing data
Joe Hourcle
oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov
Mon Mar 16 20:32:23 EDT 2015
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Koshoffer, Amy (koshofae) wrote:
> I would like to post this to the listserve. I subscribe, but one post I
> attempted was rejected. Can you advise me how to post to the list
> serve?
I think it went through.
> I was wondering if there are good examples for using creative commons
> licenses with data sets. We are working on rolling out our
> Institutional repository and are trying to see how to provide adequate
> licenses for data sets, but we feel that there is much to be learned.
> We have reviewed the DCC how to license data
> http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data and
> watched the ACRL webinar "Can I copyright my data". I am interested in
> cases that use the CC licenses or have used re-use statements (the
> language of those re-use statements would be of great interest to us).
Version 4.0 of the CC licenses specifically assert rights over databases,
not just normal copyright (which doesn't apply to most data in the US).
Prior to v4, John Wilbanks (at the time, working for Creative Commons) had
recommended CC0 for data, due to some of the issues that other CC licenses
caused for data re-use, like attribution stacking. (when you end up with
needing to attribute dozens or hundreds of different entities, because
they all used various 'BY' clauses)
You might also want to consider the Open Data Commons licenses, which are
specifically written for data:
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/
There have been some questions about what qualifies as 'attribution'.
When OCLC released the WorldCat data as ODC-BY, there were questions about
how that would work in practice. They seem to have changed the language
on their website to try to get an explicit mention of OCLC on any
application made using their data, but the original guidance was closer to
the advice under the 'Can attribution be a burden?' section, where they
mention just maintaining their identifiers:
http://www.oclc.org/data/attribution.en.html
-Joe
ps. There are also a number of licensing related questions on
the Open Data StackExchange site:
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/licensing
Note that some of the questions are from before CC released the
version 4 licenses, such as the 'Benefits of using CC0 over CC-BY
for data'
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/q/26/263
pps. Disclaimer : I'm one of the moderators of the Open Data
StackExchange website.
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