Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:
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>> Using licensing to ensure the data providers URIs are always preserved
>> delivers low cost and implicit attribution. This is what I believe CC-BY-SA
>> delivers. There is nothing wrong with granular attribution if compliance is
>> low cost. Personally, I think we are on the verge of an "Attribution
>> Economy", and said economy will encourage contributions from a plethora of
>> high quality data providers (esp. from the tradition media realm).
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Regardless of any attribution economy, CC-BY-SA is basically unenforceable
for data so is not appropriate. You can't copyright the diameter of the
moon.

Ian

Received on Tuesday, 23 June 2009 22:37:45 UTC