The Future of Open Information:Open government data and beyond...

Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM

Board of Directors, Open Knowledge FoundationCo-founder, Open Data Commons Lawyer and strategy consultant in IP/ITwww.jordanhatcher.com

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Open Knowledge Foundationhttp://www.okfn.org

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We promote open knowledge

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• Use

• Reuse

• Redistribute

• Commercial use allowed

• Attribution & Share Alike requirements = okay

“open”

www.opendefinition.org

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“genes to geo-data and sonnets to statistics”

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http://www.okfn.org/projects

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OKF work

• Standards - Open Definition; Open Government Data Principles; Open Data Commons

• Infrastructure & Tools – CKAN; kforge; datapkg

• Open Knowledge Production – PSI, Public Domain Works, WDMMG

• Events, Workshops, and Working Groups – OKcon; open data workshops; EU Open Data WG; Open Government Data WG

• Community Support – very active

• Propose your own!

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OpenDataCommons.org

Legal tools for Open Data

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Structure of session

• Introductions

•Background on what’s happening

•FOI

•Open Government Data

• Intro to Open Data Licensing

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“Has the open information revolution run its course or just begun?”

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“Has the open information revolution run its course or just begun?”

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Structure of session

• Introductions

•Background on what’s happening

•FOI

•Open Government Data

•Open Data Licensing

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FOI = reactive

Open Government Data = proactive

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http://www.ukcod.org.uk/25

(FOI)

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Structure of session

• Introductions

•Background on what’s happening

•FOI

•Open Government Data

•Open Data Licensing

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(a short tour)

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(why?)

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Consumer of content

Finding stuff (software, content, databases)

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Options

1. Ask for a licence.

2. Use under an exception (fair use or fair dealing).

3. Infringe

4. Use something else

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Options

1. Ask for a licence.

2. Use under an exception (fair use or fair dealing).

3. Infringe

4. Use something else

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Releasing your stuff

Producer of content

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Pirates or partners? You decide...

(and remix)

data

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Approaches to p2p

• No rights reserved - Public domain

• Some rights reserved -open licensing

• All rights reserved - Soft enforcement

• All rights reserved - Heavy enforcement

(and remix)

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(a licensing example)

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“You may extract, download, and make copies of the information contained in the Datasets, and you may share that information with third parties.”

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/0,,contentMDK:22547097~pagePK:50016803~piPK:50016805~theSitePK:13,00.html

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Structure of session

• Introductions

•Background on what’s happening

•FOI

•Open Government Data

•Open Data Licensing

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Open data is the application of many the same principles and philosophies as free and open source software and open content projects such as Creative Commons to data and databases.

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• Use

• Reuse

• Redistribute

• Commercial use allowed

• Attribution & Share Alike requirements = okay

“open”

www.opendefinition.org

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GPL, FSF, OSI, BSD... = softwareCreative Commons... = content

Data is different from software and content both legally and in what you do with it

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OpenDataCommons.org

Legal tools for Open Data

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• No Public Domain tool for databases existed

• Demand for a share alike database license & CC seen as poor fit

OpenDataCommons

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• Open Database License (ODbL) (+ DbCL)

• Attribution only (Open Data Commons - BY)

• Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Legal solutions for open data:(some options)

Open Data Commons

Creative Commons

• CC0 and public domain assertion tool

• CC licenses (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) though not for everyone)

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Open Database License (ODbL)

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http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

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Open Data Commons Attribution License

http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/

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Public Domain Dedication & License (PDDL)

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PDDL

http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/

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Six CC licences

• Attribution (BY)

• Attribution | No Derivatives (BY-ND)

• Attribution | Non-Commercial | No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

• Attribution | Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

• Attribution | Non-Commercial | Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

• Attribution | Share Alike (BY-SA)

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• Open Database License (ODbL) (+ DbCL)

• Attribution only (Open Data Commons - BY)

• Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Legal solutions for open data:(some options)

Open Data Commons

Creative Commons

• CC0 and public domain assertion tool

• CC licenses (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) though not for everyone)

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(final thoughts)

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Software Content Data

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Diffusion of Innovations / Technology Adoption Curve

OpenData

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“Has the open information revolution run its course or just begun?”

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opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010

18-19 November, London

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Thanks!

www.okfn.org/

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/

Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM

Email: jordan DOT hatcher ]at[ okfn DOT org

Avaliable on slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/jordanhatcher www.jordanhatcher.com

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Question mark and arrowCC-BY laurkgibbshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/3635356091/

two hats talking to each other by sleepyneko CC-BY-SAhttp://flickr.com/photos/ejchang/558997184/

LOD cloud licensing diagram - Leigh Dodds - ISWC 2009 CC-BY<http://www.ldodds.com/tmp/iswc-legal-frameworks-overview.pdf><http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/ISWC_2009_Tutorials/Legal_and_Social_Frameworks_for_Sharing_Data_on_the_Web>

London MapMap data CC-BY-SA Open Street Map and contributors

An empty tin can.by Sun Ladder, CC-BY-SAhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Empty_tin_can2009-01-19.jpg

Richard Stallman (public domain)http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_-_Denmark_DTU_2007-3-31.jpg

Larry Lessig – Lessig portrait by Notwist CC-BY 2.0http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lessig_portrait.jpgCrop of Lawrence Lessig freesouls hero.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_Lessig_freesouls_hero.jpg

The original Tux, the official Linux mascot created by Larry Ewing in 1996: Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided you acknowledge lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if someone asks.

All other trademarks are copyright / trademark their respective owners. Some works, such as screenshots, may appear here under exceptions or exclusions to copyright and trademark law such as fair use / fair dealing and are not covered by the CC license over this work and these exclusions or exceptions may not apply to you.

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Thanks!

www.okfn.org/

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/

Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM

Email: jordan DOT hatcher ]at[ okfn DOT org

Avaliable on slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/jordanhatcher www.jordanhatcher.com

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