- From: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:25:15 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
Am 01.06.2013 19:11, schrieb Pascal Hitzler: >> PS: A few days I attended a talk by a German lawyer about data licensing >> and he said that if you publish your data on the Web without access >> control, it is (at least in Germany) not secured by any IPR and everyone >> can (without asking the publisher) use the data, republish it and do >> whatever with it as he pleases. If this is really true, at least for all >> Germans all data published as Linked Data on the Web without any license >> would be Open Data too ;-) > > Soeren - concrete question. When does this German law apply, given that > the Web doesn't really have borders? If I'm a German (business) and use data published by a German (business) I'm always fine :-) In other cases at least nobody can sue me here for using data published on the Web, but you are right, I might not be able to travel everywhere anymore ;-) But joking aside: Google build a huge business around using texts from the Web, what's the problem with using data from the Web? We also should not always draw horror scenarios... Sören
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