Hi Stefano, about sharing data with CC licence i can only say that after the workshop of Genova and the interesting discussion about this license we (Arc-Team) decided to release the final report of the excavation we were working on, under the Creative Common. If i understood well, when we write something, we automatically have what in Italy is called ''paternita' dell'opera'' (a kind of copyright), so we could put our final report (that we have to send to the archaeological sovrintendence) under a public license. The problem for us still remain the same: i think we cannot put such a license on all the other data of the excavation (the founs, the layers, etc...), cause this data is not something we created...
I think that one of the main point in this discussion is to understand when something can be considered an intellectual creation, cause in this case we can put it under a license (an open one is always better). Of course an ''intellectual creation'' can speak about facts, like in our final report we spoke about finds and layer. In this sense i would like to understand if the map i draw or the picture i take with my camera, when they are representing founs or layer (facts), can be considered an ''intellectual creation'' or not. In the first case maybe it is possible to put them under an open license and share them. If, on the other hand, they have to be considered ''facts'', is possible that someone has a kind of copyright on them? If it is like this, i fear that in Italy this ''copyright'' belongs to the Italian repubblic, represented by the sovrintendence, so it is impossible to share them without a written permission. Sorry for the long email, but this is a problem that we often find in our work, so I would like to know something more about it, and if someone else found solutions. Best reguards, Luca Bezzi Arc-Team Archaeology & Free Software http://www.arc-team.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailing list info: http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/archaeology
