- From: Pascal Hitzler <pascal.hitzler@wright.edu>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:47:44 -0400
- To: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- CC: <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 6/1/2013 1:25 PM, Sören Auer wrote: > 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... No but we need to respect business practice - see the example story in the paper. Best Regards, Pascal. > Sören > > > > -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal@pascal-hitzler.de http://pascal-hitzler.de/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org/ Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/
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