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1. Re: Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons licence
(Loenen, Bastiaan van)
2. Re: Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons licence
(Loenen, Bastiaan van)
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:09:31 +0200
From: "Loenen, Bastiaan van" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [GSDI Legal Econ] Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons
licence
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Dear all,
We certainly have an opinion on the applicability of the CC licenses for GI.
Here at Delft University, we researched most available license for public sector information for the Dutch program Space for Geo-information and found that the assumed very different licensing restrictions appeared to be very similar. And that the CC will be an excellent way to harmonise the current intransparent situation of very similar but differently worded licenses.
One Dutch organisation already uses the CC licenses (see www.digitalekaart.nl) and we are about to promote the concept in our research consortium (including the provinces, Dutch geological survey, water boards).
A recent paper on this may be found at http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/12ec-gis/12th_EC-GIS_abstracts.pdf (search for Welle Donker). For an improved version of this paper, please look at: http://www.bastiaanvanloenen.nl/pubs.htm (Welle Donker, F. and B. van Loenen, (2006), Transparency <http://www.bastiaanvanloenen.nl/pubs/2006_FWD_BVL_EC%20GIGIS.pdf> of accessibility to government-owned geo-information, Proceedings of the 12th EC-GI&GIS Workshop, Innsbruck, Austria, 21-23 June 2006, pp. 89-96 (ISBN 92-79-02083-8).)
Bastiaan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kate Lance
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:36 AM
To: SDI-legal-econ
Subject: [GSDI Legal Econ] Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons licence
This bodes well for Creative Commons licenses.... anyone else have examples of
Creative Commons licences being tested in the courts?
Or perhaps you have an opinion on Creative Commons licenses for geospatial data....??
http://www.creativecommons.ca/blog/archives/2006/03/14/dutch-court-upholds-creative-commons-license/ <http://www.creativecommons.ca/blog/archives/2006/03/14/dutch-court-upholds-creative-commons-license/>
Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons licence
Creative Commons Canada, March 17, 2006: Photographs made available on flickr.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike license may not be reproduced in a weekly magazine without the author's permission....The Dutch Court's decision is especially noteworthy because it confirms that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically apply to the content licensed under it, and bind users of such content even without expressly agreeing to, or having knowledge of, the conditions of the license. The full text of the decision (in Dutch) is available at http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn <http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn&ljn=AV4204&u_ljn=AV4204> &ljn=AV4204&u_ljn=AV4204
[Source: ConsortiumInfo.org]
"Are GIS data available under Creative Commons (CC)? How about a DEM from Puget Sound (2000)? The Libre Map Project uses a CC license (and hosts lots of DRGs and TIGER data). A few non-profits are using CC too, including ONEList (an environmental blog for the NorthWest) and EOGEO (an organization serving civil society organizations with geospatial technology). I also found some interesting work on Public Commons of GIScience at the University of Maine."
Source: http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?article_id=834
<http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?article_id=834&trv=1> &trv=1
<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2005-April/000012.html>
About Creative Commons:
"The Creative Commons [is not] involved in digital rights management (DRM): we
prefer to describe the technical aspect of our work as digital rights description.
Whereas digital rights management tools try to prevent certain uses of copyright works
and restrict your rights, we're trying to promote certain uses and grant you rights.
Instead of having software say, 'No, you cannot modify this file,' we want it to say
something more like 'The author will let you modify this file, but in return, give her
credit.' While the tools are similar, our goals are different. Instead of using one of
the many DRM formats, we've chosen to go with the W3C's RDF/XML format. Instead of saying
'We're not placing these restrictions,' we say 'We grant you these permissions,' so that
search engines and other applications can easily find generously licensed works and sort
them. A physical analogy may be helpful. It's DRM's job to put up signs that say 'No
Trespassing.' It would seem silly to take those signs and change them to say 'Yes
Trespassing,' which is what using a DRM format to express our licenses would be like.
Instead, we're building new signs that say 'Welcome, Please Come In,' and that use
different colors and designs to convey their different messages. We're leaving
'enforcement' to the law, social norms, and the good faith of the participants. Our tools
act as informative aids, not instruments of control... "
Source: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-03-07-a.html#aboutCC
http://www.okfn.org/geo/geodata_cc_license_draft.rtf
Proposed Creative Commons-style License -- National Mapping Agency: Access to
GIS datasets
[Draft Version: 1.1 * Date: 19/4/2005 * Author: Giles Lane]
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2005-April/000012.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/MicrosoftCreativeCommons.html
June 20, 2006: Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright
Licensing
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:26:39 +0200
From: "Loenen, Bastiaan van" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [GSDI Legal Econ] Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons
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oeps the link I just provided should be http://www.nieuwekaart.nl
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Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SDI-legal-econ
Subject: Re: [GSDI Legal Econ] Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons licence
Dear all,
We certainly have an opinion on the applicability of the CC licenses for GI.
Here at Delft University, we researched most available license for public sector information for the Dutch program Space for Geo-information and found that the assumed very different licensing restrictions appeared to be very similar. And that the CC will be an excellent way to harmonise the current intransparent situation of very similar but differently worded licenses.
One Dutch organisation already uses the CC licenses (see www.digitalekaart.nl) and we are about to promote the concept in our research consortium (including the provinces, Dutch geological survey, water boards).
A recent paper on this may be found at http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/12ec-gis/12th_EC-GIS_abstracts.pdf (search for Welle Donker). For an improved version of this paper, please look at: http://www.bastiaanvanloenen.nl/pubs.htm (Welle Donker, F. and B. van Loenen, (2006), Transparency <http://www.bastiaanvanloenen.nl/pubs/2006_FWD_BVL_EC%20GIGIS.pdf> of accessibility to government-owned geo-information, Proceedings of the 12th EC-GI&GIS Workshop, Innsbruck, Austria, 21-23 June 2006, pp. 89-96 (ISBN 92-79-02083-8).)
Bastiaan
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kate Lance
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:36 AM
To: SDI-legal-econ
Subject: [GSDI Legal Econ] Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons licence
This bodes well for Creative Commons licenses.... anyone else have examples of
Creative Commons licences being tested in the courts?
Or perhaps you have an opinion on Creative Commons licenses for geospatial data....??
http://www.creativecommons.ca/blog/archives/2006/03/14/dutch-court-upholds-creative-commons-license/ <http://www.creativecommons.ca/blog/archives/2006/03/14/dutch-court-upholds-creative-commons-license/>
Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons licence
Creative Commons Canada, March 17, 2006: Photographs made available on flickr.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike license may not be reproduced in a weekly magazine without the author's permission....The Dutch Court's decision is especially noteworthy because it confirms that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically apply to the content licensed under it, and bind users of such content even without expressly agreeing to, or having knowledge of, the conditions of the license. The full text of the decision (in Dutch) is available at http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn <http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn&ljn=AV4204&u_ljn=AV4204> &ljn=AV4204&u_ljn=AV4204
[Source: ConsortiumInfo.org]
"Are GIS data available under Creative Commons (CC)? How about a DEM from Puget Sound (2000)? The Libre Map Project uses a CC license (and hosts lots of DRGs and TIGER data). A few non-profits are using CC too, including ONEList (an environmental blog for the NorthWest) and EOGEO (an organization serving civil society organizations with geospatial technology). I also found some interesting work on Public Commons of GIScience at the University of Maine."
Source: http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?article_id=834
<http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?article_id=834&trv=1> &trv=1
<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2005-April/000012.html>
About Creative Commons:
"The Creative Commons [is not] involved in digital rights management (DRM): we
prefer to describe the technical aspect of our work as digital rights description.
Whereas digital rights management tools try to prevent certain uses of copyright works
and restrict your rights, we're trying to promote certain uses and grant you rights.
Instead of having software say, 'No, you cannot modify this file,' we want it to say
something more like 'The author will let you modify this file, but in return, give her
credit.' While the tools are similar, our goals are different. Instead of using one of
the many DRM formats, we've chosen to go with the W3C's RDF/XML format. Instead of saying
'We're not placing these restrictions,' we say 'We grant you these permissions,' so that
search engines and other applications can easily find generously licensed works and sort
them. A physical analogy may be helpful. It's DRM's job to put up signs that say 'No
Trespassing.' It would seem silly to take those signs and change them to say 'Yes
Trespassing,' which is what using a DRM format to express our licenses would be like.
Instead, we're building new signs that say 'Welcome, Please Come In,' and that use
different colors and designs to convey their different messages. We're leaving
'enforcement' to the law, social norms, and the good faith of the participants. Our tools
act as informative aids, not instruments of control... "
Source: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-03-07-a.html#aboutCC
http://www.okfn.org/geo/geodata_cc_license_draft.rtf
Proposed Creative Commons-style License -- National Mapping Agency: Access to
GIS datasets
[Draft Version: 1.1 * Date: 19/4/2005 * Author: Giles Lane]
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2005-April/000012.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/MicrosoftCreativeCommons.html
June 20, 2006: Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright
Licensing
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