Landon, At [1] you'll find the report from the 'Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data' from Australia's Victorian Parliament.
Their approach is to move towards a Creative Commons scheme. This allows the recognition of the data set creator's copyright. There are a lot of relevant observations in the report. CC is becoming the default approach from many governments around the world. If you dig a little deeper at [1], you'll see the OSGeo AustNZ submission put together by myself and Cameron Shorter. We were even cited in the final report a few times. Bruce [1] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/component/content/category/31 ________________________________ From: Landon Blake <sunburned.surve...@gmail.com> Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:06:02 +1100 To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data OSGeo Folks: I'm giving a talk to CCVGPG (http://www.ccvgpg.org), our local GIS user group this Friday. My talk will be about copyright and licensing of geospatial data. I've found a good amount of information on copyright and a bit on its application to GIS. However, I haven't found much at all in the way of information about the licensing of geospatial data. If you have some references I can investigate, I would appreciate that. Or, if you work for an organization that had to make decisions about the licensing of geospatial data, and you'd be willing to discuss things you considered as part of that decision process, please let me know. I'll post a link to a video of the talk if recording and editing goes OK. Thanks. Landon _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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