Re: Licences, Ts&Cs, Permissions and Obligations

Hi Phil

this may or may not be relevant - but in Australia there is some
uncertainty about the use of postcodes, and what obligations would apply if
this was used in a web context - either as a service parameter or in a
response payload

http://auspost.com.au/business-solutions/postcode-data.html

says "You will need a licence to use the Australian postcode list for
commercial or business purposes."

what if you had a dataset that had a postcode for every address - you could
reverse engineer the list of postcodes from any comprehensive address set.

The issue is is not so much the licence regime, whatever you may think of
it, as the fact that the casual user or web developer would certainly not
expect such a situation arising from a publically owned service in the 21st
century - so i guess this is the sort of use case where the machinery needs
to be able to bring it to attention based on metadata.

Cheers
Rob Atkinson

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 at 02:13 Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> This isn't related to current work items within the WG but I believe it
> will be of relevance to at least some folks here.
>
> One of my other WGs is the Permissions and Obligations Expression WG who
> ask whether you have a use case arising from your work where you are
> hindered by a lack of info about the terms and conditions of use of some
> data. The group is collecting its use cases on its wiki [1] and deriving
> requirements [2]. They not starting from scratch. This work has a long
> history, including time as a Community Group, and the existing ODRL spec
> is well implemented [3], so we're looking for use cases that ODRL
> doesn't handle.
>
> Interestingly, the issue of subsetting came up today :-)
>
> Shout in my general direction for more info if needed.
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Use_Cases
> [2] https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Requirements
> [3] https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/
>
> --
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>
> Phil Archer
> W3C Data Activity Lead
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