Hi all, I recently blogged about the MashupAustralia competition, which was announced yesterday:
http://blog.okfn.org/2009/10/01/australian-government-releases-open-data-for-mashupaustralia-competition/ The competition is putting out lots of open data to encourage innovate re-uses - which is great news! Lots of the data is being released under CC-BY. On the competition home page, Cameron Neylon raises the question of whether this is appropriate for data, sparking off debate with Mia Garlick, organiser of competition and ex-Creative Commons counsel: http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/30/your-invitation-to-mashupaustralia/#comment-1818 Her basic argument seems to me to be that CC licenses are not "mere (copyright) licenses" but are also contracts - in which case CC-BY offers legal protection. Its seems that the rationale for doing this is that government departments want attribution. Would be great to have thoughts and opinions of people here! -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
