Given at the Society for Computers and Law Policy forum on "The Future of Open", September 2010, London, UK.

1. The Future of Open Information:
Open government data and beyond...
Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM
Board of Directors, Open Knowledge Foundation
Co-founder, Open Data Commons
Lawyer and strategy consultant in IP/IT
www.jordanhatcher.com
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2. Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org
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3. We promote open knowledge
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5. • Use
• Reuse
• Redistribute
“open”
• Commercial use allowed
• Attribution & Share Alike
requirements = okay
www.opendefinition.org
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6. “genes to geo-data and sonnets to statistics”
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8. http://www.okfn.org/projects
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9. 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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15. OpenDataCommons.org
Legal tools for Open Data
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16. Structure of session
• Introductions
• Background on what’s happening
• FOI
• Open Government Data
• Intro to Open Data Licensing
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17. “Has the open information revolution run
its course or just begun?”
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18. “Has the open information revolution run
its course or just begun?”
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19. Structure of session
• Introductions
• Background on what’s happening
• FOI
• Open Government Data
• Open Data Licensing
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20. FOI = reactive
Open Government Data = proactive
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25. http://www.ukcod.org.uk/
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26. (FOI)
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27. Structure of session
• Introductions
• Background on what’s happening
• FOI
• Open Government Data
• Open Data Licensing
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28. (a short tour)
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36. (why?)
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38. Consumer of content
Finding stuff (software,
content, databases)
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39. 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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40. 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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41. Producer of content
Releasing your stuff
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42. data
(and remix)
Pirates or partners? You decide...
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43. 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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44. (a licensing example)
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46. “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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47. Structure of session
• Introductions
• Background on what’s happening
• FOI
• Open Government Data
• Open Data Licensing
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48. 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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49. • Use
• Reuse
• Redistribute
“open”
• Commercial use allowed
• Attribution & Share Alike
requirements = okay
www.opendefinition.org
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50. GPL, FSF, OSI, BSD... = software
Creative Commons... = content
Data is different from
software and content
both legally
and in what you do with it
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52. OpenDataCommons.org
Legal tools for Open Data
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53. • No Public Domain tool for
Open databases existed
Data • Demand for a share alike
Commons database license & CC
seen as poor fit
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54. Legal solutions for open data:
(some options)
Open Data Commons
• Open Database License (ODbL) (+ DbCL)
• Attribution only (Open Data Commons - BY)
• Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Creative Commons
• CC0 and public domain assertion tool
• CC licenses (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) though not for everyone)
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55. Open Database License (ODbL)
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56. http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
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58. Open Data Commons Attribution
License
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/
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59. Public Domain Dedication &
License (PDDL)
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60. PDDL
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
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62. 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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63. Legal solutions for open data:
(some options)
Open Data Commons
• Open Database License (ODbL) (+ DbCL)
• Attribution only (Open Data Commons - BY)
• Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Creative Commons
• CC0 and public domain assertion tool
• CC licenses (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) though not for everyone)
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64. (final thoughts)
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65. ?
Software Content Data
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66. Open
Data
Diffusion of Innovations / Technology Adoption Curve
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67. “Has the open information revolution run
its course or just begun?”
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68. opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010
18-19 November, London
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69. Thanks!
www.okfn.org/
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
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/
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70. Question mark and arrow
CC-BY laurkgibbs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/3635356091/
two hats talking to each other by sleepyneko CC-BY-SA
http://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 Map
Map data CC-BY-SA Open Street Map and contributors
An empty tin can.by Sun Ladder, CC-BY-SA
http://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 2.0
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lessig_portrait.jpg
Crop of Lawrence Lessig freesouls hero.jpg
http://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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71. Thanks!
www.okfn.org/
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
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/
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