Re: Licensing advice

Indeed, my latest post was rather short-sighted and I find much more 
interesting the disquisitions about "supererogatory Linked Data" or the 
abstracta analysis of "Data and Code and Speech". I wished the former 
was explained a bit more clearly :)

And about the later: If we used computers based on the Harvard 
architecture [1] instead of Von Neumann's [2] we would know what data 
and code are...

Regards,
Víctor

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

El 25/07/2013 19:59, Víctor Rodríguez Doncel escribió:
> John, Kingsley,
>
> Thanks for the valuable links you've sent.
>
> Well, beyond the Pythagorean idea that "the world is made up of 
> numbers", if laws make a distinction Data/Code, so must we. And 
> international laws implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT [1]), 
> which explicitly addresses both in two consecutive articles:
> *
> *
>
>     */A) /*/*Art4. Computer Programs.*//Computer programs are
>     protected as literary works within the meaning of Article 2 of the
>     Berne Convention.[...]/
>     */B) /*/*Art5. Compilations of Data (Databases).*////Compilations
>     of data or other material, in any form, which by reason of the
>     selection or arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual
>     creations, are protected as such [...]./
>
>
> So Computer Programs are intellectual property works, but Databases 
> are only works if they are "intellectual creations". Yet, in Europe 
> some /sui generis/ rights are recognized even for those databases not 
> qualifying to become works.
>
> Thus, I believe Linked Data can be either:
> a) Fully covered by intellectual property law
> b) Partially covered, if considered as database.
> c) Not protected at all.
>
> Unfortunately, this has to be analyzed case by case.  My examples:
> a) An OWL ontology, resulting from a hard work.
> b) An RDF dataset with the average temperatures of Madrid through the 
> years.
> c) A RDF mapping automatically obtained by an analysis tool.
>
> Regards,
> Víctor
>
> [1] WIPO Copyright Treaty: 
> http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=295166
>
> El 25/07/2013 15:38, Kingsley Idehen escribió:
>> In my eyes, Data is Code and Code is Data. Turtle and other (concrete 
>> RDF syntaxes) are simply encoding notations (so they are code). 
>
>
> -- 
> Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel
> D3205 - Ontology Engineering Group (OEG)
> Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial
> Facultad de Informática
> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
>
> Campus de Montegancedo s/n
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-- 
Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel
D3205 - Ontology Engineering Group (OEG)
Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Campus de Montegancedo s/n
Boadilla del Monte-28660 Madrid, Spain
Tel. (+34) 91336 3672
Skype: vroddon3