Re: Data Licensing

>From the comments and especially from reading Benoit Bernard blog, I
believe we can proceed by making sure we obey robot.txt and insure that we
follow the terms of service. Since we aren't in the web crawling business,
instructing editors to verify there are no ToS restrictions should allow us
to use the sites schema.org data. Note - we don't accept data from
aggregator sites like Yelp, Facebook, etc.

It would be nice of schema.org could encourage the use of a more compatible
licensing. But I understand that's unlikely.

Now I just have to convince the developers to add the feature to our
editors.

Thanks,
Clifford

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> On 26 October 2017 at 14:47, Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Clifford:
>>
>> Frankly, you will not be able to get that assurance in any global way.
>> The IPR issues with crawling and extracting Web information are non-trivial
>> and reason for several lawsuits and bilateral agreements. Schema.org cannot
>> make any such statements, for the sponsors just provide the vocabulary, not
>> the data.
>>
>> See here:
>>
>>     https://benbernardblog.com/web-scraping-and-crawling-are-per
>> fectly-legal-right/
>>
>> for a few links.
>>
>> That is the reason why e.g. republishing data gained from Web crawls is
>> problematic in research projects.
>>
>> One neat idea would be, however, for the sponsors of schema.org to
>> change the license of schema.org to a "copyleft" one, i.e. by using
>> schema.org on your Web site, you attache a liberal license to your
>> content. Not the most friendly move, but maybe one that will save us a lot
>> of trouble in the long run.
>>
>
> I'm not going to get into theoretical lawyering on this list, but will say
> personally that I don't see that as feasible or likely...
>
> (Listmembers who do want to pursue these kinds of ideas might talk to the
> POE WG folk at W3C, https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Main_Page )
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>



-- 
@osm_seattle
osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us
OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch