Public Domain Dedication and Licence v.1.0 The new materials are up! The first draft has been archived and links to the original text will be posted. I’ve just updated the page that the PDDL was originally on. The Community Norms statement was not updated. CHANGELOG – PDDL Added various text in the preamble in order [...]
At the Open Knowledge Convention in London on Saturday, March 15th, I will make a short presentation on the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence and announce its release out of beta. By the end of the day on Monday I will have all the changes finished and up on OpenDataCommons.org. A detailed [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The new Open Data Commons set of legal tools are now available for comment. There are two documents for you to review: Public Domain Dedication & Licence (PDDL) Community Norms We’ve created a FAQ for some of the initial questions here. A FAQ addressing some of the in-depth legal issues of the PDDL will be [...]