do i need to license my open data?

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Do I Need to LicenseMy Open Data?

Ian HenshawCEO

The ODI North Carolina

ihenshaw@theodinc.org@ihenshaw

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About the Open Data Institute

The Open Data Institute is catalyzing the evolution of open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value.

It helps unlock supply, generates demand, creates and disseminates data to address local and global issues.

We convene world-class experts to collaborate, incubate, nurture and mentor new ideas, and promote innovation. We enable

anyone to learn and engage with open data, and empower our teams to help others through professional coaching and

mentoring.

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Open Data Defined

● Non-Proprietary Format● Easy to Access● Easy to Use● Machine Readable● Reusable Without Restrictive License● No Cost

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What is not Open Data? ● Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

● Security Data● Confidential Information●

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Examples of Open Data● Government Data ● Commercial Data

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Examples of Open Data

● Crowd Sourced Data

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Benefits of Open Data

● Increased Citizen Engagement

● Reduction of Government Costs

● Support for an Open Government Initiative

– e.g. Transparency

● Economic Development

● Talent Attraction / Retention

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License Options for Open Data

● No License

● Creative Commons

● Open Data Commons

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No License Option for Open Data

● If no license is mentioned (even public domain) then like most other websites it becomes a case for the courts.

● Most curated content is not specifically licensed and this is why copyright (all rights reserved) automatically applies to creative works.

● This means without a license then it could be assumed that what is meant to be open data, in fact isn’t.

Information from Dr David Tarrant, Senior Trainer for the Open Data Institute UK. @davetaz

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Creative Commons

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use and build upon a work that they have created.

Information in this section is from Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/

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Creative Commons

Attribution (BY)

● Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.

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Creative Commons

Share-alike (SA)

● Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work.

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Creative Commons

Non-commercial (NC)

● Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes.

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Creative Commons

No Derivative Works (ND)

● Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it.

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Creative Commons

Public Domain Mark

● Using the Public Domain Mark, you can mark a work that is free of known copyright restrictions and clearly convey that status. When applied properly, the PDM allows the work to be easily discovered, and provides valuable information about the work.

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Creative Commons

CC0 — “No Rights Reserved”

● CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law.

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Creative Commons for Open Data

Only CC-BY and CC-BY-SA can be used for Open Data.

The best Open Data license remains CC zero. Very hard to enforce all others.

Information from Pieter Colpaert, researcher in linked open data at Multimedia Lab (MMLab) research group within Ghent University. @pietercolpaert

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Open Data Commons

● Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

– “Public Domain for data/databases”

● Attribution License (ODC-By)

– “Attribution for data/databases”

● Open Database License (ODC-ODbL)

– “Attribution Share-Alike for data/databases”

Information in this section is from Open Data Commons: http://opendatacommons.org

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Open Data Commons

● Distinguish Between the “Database” and its “Contents”?

– They may have separate rights

– For example, consider a database of photographs. Here there are the rights in the database and quite separate individual copyrights in the photographs.

– Or consider the example of Freebase which contains textual material and images from Wikipedia as well as user contributed material. While Freebase controls the database the individual items of contents need to have their own separate license

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License Options for Open Data

● No License

● Creative Commons

● Open Data Commons

What do you think?

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Upcoming Courses

● Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series

– Lecture Series will pause until after Labor Day

– September 5 - Are all “Opens” the Same?

– September 12 - NC DataPalooza

● ODI Open Data Certification Courses

– September 11 - Open Data Fundamentals

– Discount Code = ODIFriday

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ODI NC Services

Thought Leadership

Open Data Research

Open Data Training

Open Data Consulting

Open Data Program Administration

Data Set Certification

Networking

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