I support Karthik's point and think there is a long overdue case to call for all publicly funded work (incl. government works, publications, data etc.) to be explicitly released into the public domain (as defined here http://law.yourdictionary.com/articles/what-is-public-domain.html ) or failing that freely licensed (given that the Copyright laws and other laws are too inertia bound).
If there is to be a single point agenda for any knowledge related organization, it would certainly be to seek change in the clause related to work of government so as to be along the lines of 17 USC 105 - a useful discussion on it can be found at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105 best wishes Shyamal http://muscicapa.blogspot.com Is data behind non-monetary paywalls really open?<http://groups.google.com/group/datameet/t/e0c7882e428fcc6a> > > Karthik Shashidhar <[email protected]> Feb 18 10:30AM +0530 > > > What do you think of websites or organizations that ask you to fill up > an > elaborate form or write an elaborate research proposal before they > share > their data with you? Do you think such data is really "open"? > > I find monetary paywalls more egalitarian than such artificial paywalls > because in the former case the data is available to anyone who pays. In > case of artificial paywalls though (I will call them paywalls since you > effectively pay by massaging the ego of the person who controls the > data) > there is no guarantee that you will get the data and people > controlling it > can reject your requests for arbitrary reasons. > > Don't you think there is a case to campaign for data behind such > artificial > paywalls to be put in the public domain and made really "free"? At > least we > should campaign for all data produced as part of publicly funded > research > to be made publicly available in an easily downloadable and usable > format. > > Regards > Karthik > > > > > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
