- From: Samuel Rose <samuel.rose@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 22:32:47 -0400
- To: Pascal Hitzler <pascal.hitzler@wright.edu>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Pascal Hitzler <pascal.hitzler@wright.edu> wrote: > We just finished a piece indicating serious legal issues regarding the > commercialization of Linked Data - this may be of general interest, hence > the post. We hope to stimulate discussions on this issue (hence the > provokative title). > > Available from > http://knoesis.wright.edu/faculty/pascal/pub/nomoneylod.pdf > > Abstract. > Linked Data (LD) has been an active research area for more than 6 years and > many aspects about publishing, retrieving, linking, and cleaning Linked Data > have been investigated. There seems to be a broad and general agreement that > in principle LD datasets can be very useful for solving a wide variety of > problems ranging from practical industrial analytics to highly specific > research problems. Having these notions in mind, we started exploring the > use of notable LD datasets such as DBpedia, Freebase, Geonames and others > for a commercial application. However, it turns out that using these > datasets in realistic settings is not always easy. Surprisingly, in many > cases the underlying issues are not technical but legal barriers erected by > the LD data publishers. In this paper we argue that these barriers are often > not justified, detrimental to both data publishers and users, and are often > built without much consideration of their consequences. > > Authors: > Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Chitra Venkatramani > Thanks, Pascal and co. Very useful! It seems the suggestion here is to release under public domain for the greatest freedom? > -- > Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler > Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH > pascal@pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ > Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org > Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net > >
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