- From: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:07:04 +0100
- To: Christoph Lange <ch.lange@jacobs-university.de>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
Hi Christoph, Very happy to see more data appearing, congrats :) A brief aside on licensing... On 2 June 2011 09:27, Christoph Lange <ch.lange@jacobs-university.de> wrote: > ... > Note that we have not yet considered copyright issues -- but at least > preserved the original ACM copyright statement, which permits "personal or > classroom use". That's probably not enough for reasonable Linked Data > applications. I would be glad if someone familiar with the subject could > point out what to do. What did previous publishers of RDF versions of the > ACM CCS do? I won't reproduce the text here, and I'm not a lawyer, but the wording says "...to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permission to republish from..[address+email]". I think one reasonable thing that someone may want to do is mirror the data, e.g. to provide a public SPARQL endpoint or other services. Currently it doesn't look like I can do that without contacting the ACM directly, which I assume you've also done. It's not clear to me whether I could even copy parts of the data and index it to use in an application, as that potentially falls out side of the personal and classroom use. I fully support arguments to the effect of "use and seek forgiveness later" when using data, but as we see more and more commercial usage of Linked Data, I think we really need to see clearer licensing around data. Otherwise feels like we're building on uncertain ground. Cheers, L. -- Leigh Dodds Programme Manager, Talis Platform Mobile: 07850 928381 http://kasabi.com http://talis.com Talis Systems Ltd 43 Temple Row Birmingham B2 5LS
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