[OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Landon,

At [1] you'll find the report from the 'Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data' from Australia's Victorian Parliament.

Their approach is to move towards a Creative Commons scheme. This allows the recognition of the data set creator's copyright.

There are a lot of relevant observations in the report.

CC is becoming the default approach from many governments around the world.

If you dig a little deeper at [1], you'll see the OSGeo AustNZ submission put together by myself and Cameron Shorter. We were even cited in the final report a few times.

Bruce

[1] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/component/content/category/31




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From: Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:06:02 +1100
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

OSGeo Folks:

I'm giving a talk to CCVGPG (http://www.ccvgpg.org), our local GIS
user group this Friday. My talk will be about copyright and licensing
of geospatial data. I've found a good amount of information on
copyright and a bit on its application to GIS. However, I haven't
found much at all in the way of information about the licensing of
geospatial data. If you have some references I can investigate, I
would appreciate that.

Or, if you work for an organization that had to make decisions about
the licensing of geospatial data, and you'd be willing to discuss
things you considered as part of that decision process, please let me
know.

I'll post a link to a video of the talk if recording and editing goes OK.

Thanks.

Landon
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