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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Landon,<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Their approach is to move towards a Creative Commons scheme. This allows the recognition of the data set creator’s copyright.<BR>
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There are a lot of relevant observations in the report.<BR>
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CC is becoming the default approach from many governments around the world.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Bruce<BR>
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[1] <a href="http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/component/content/category/31">http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/component/content/category/31</a><BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Landon Blake <<a href="sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com">sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>OSGeo Discussions <<a href="discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:06:02 +1100<BR>
<B>To: </B>OSGeo Discussions <<a href="discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data<BR>
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OSGeo Folks:<BR>
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I'm giving a talk to CCVGPG (<a href="http://www.ccvgpg.org">http://www.ccvgpg.org</a>), our local GIS<BR>
user group this Friday. My talk will be about copyright and licensing<BR>
of geospatial data. I've found a good amount of information on<BR>
copyright and a bit on its application to GIS. However, I haven't<BR>
found much at all in the way of information about the licensing of<BR>
geospatial data. If you have some references I can investigate, I<BR>
would appreciate that.<BR>
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Or, if you work for an organization that had to make decisions about<BR>
the licensing of geospatial data, and you'd be willing to discuss<BR>
things you considered as part of that decision process, please let me<BR>
know.<BR>
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I'll post a link to a video of the talk if recording and editing goes OK.<BR>
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Thanks.<BR>
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Landon<BR>
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