- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:02:19 -0400
- To: Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Ian Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Kingsley Idehen > <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote: > > > 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). > > > 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 > > > > I am not talking about copyrighting the diameter of the moon. I am talking about the origin of the diameter of the moon that is de-referencable via an HTTP URI :-) Just want a pathway to the origin of the perspective that is being used in some other context and space. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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