Re: There's No Money in Linked Data

Good work, Pascal.  Some minor comments:

1)  Licenses (and license compliance) are issues with much broader communities, including Open Source software and other forms of open content.

2)  I wish you had used the term Linked *Open* Data to avoid purely commercial users of Linked Data being confused.

Regards,
Dave
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On May 17, 2013, at 22:15, 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
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> 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
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