Matt Amos from the Open Street Map License Working Group has very kindly created a plain language summary of the Open Database License. This summary gives a clear but simple guide to how the database and its contents can be used. Thanks Matt!
The Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 “Release Candidate 2″ is now available at: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ As expected there haven’t been many changes from the first Release Candidate. The two main alterations are: Removal of section 4.7 related to reverse engineering. This may be reintroduced in later versions but has been left out here in order to [...]
The Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 “Release Candidate” is now available at: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ This updated version of the license incorporates a whole set of changes arising out of the earlier comments period and the main changes are summarized below. As the naming suggests, we believe this text is now very close to a “production-ready” 1.0 [...]
Creative Commons has announced a change in course for CCZero with reference to the approach taken byOpen Data Commons and the Public Domain Dedication and Licence.
A comment via personal email and via the discuss list for the Open Data Commons set of legal tools. This is about the Public Domain Dedication & Licence: Would it be possible to include an indemnification clause for misuse of data, for example when the data is passed on to a third person not bound [...]
Creative Commons has released the beta version of CCZero (or CC ∅). CCZero implements the Science Commons Protocol for implementing Open Access Data by waiving related intellectual property rights, including copyright and unfair competition. Open Data Commons also implements this protocol in the Public Domain Dedication and Licence with the accompanying Community Norms statement. The [...]
I want to bring up an important issue in trying to implement the public domain dedication part of the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & Licence. The PDDL is made up of two parts — a dedication to the public domain of the “Work” and a back-up licence in case the jurisdiction involved doesn’t [...]
There has been some discussion on a blog concerning the definition of a database used in the Public Domain Dedication & Licence and how this is applied. While the discussion is ongoing, I do want to mention the possibility of adding in a clause to clarify the types of rights involved in databases. Proposed clause [...]
The issue of unfair competition has already come up on one of the discuss lists. The new Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data mentions this area of law. 4.1 Converge on the public domain by waiving all rights based on intellectual property *** Thus, to facilitate data integration and open access data sharing, [...]