Alexis, thanks for your IA answer. I do agree with Tom and Lee though, that the current statement of usage responsibility is not really, err, usable.
I wasn't there from the beginning and haven't read all logs and emails in the archive, so I don't really know what happened then. It is clear that there were several imports of MARC record sets, some of better quality than others, and that a bot 'took' information from the Library of Congress at regular intervals or semi-continuously. For each of these sources, there must have been at least a decision to 'take'/start taking the data and I assume something gave the impression (or better: explicit confirmation) that that 'taking' was allowed. Can it be determined for these sources? Talis, sets from several state(?) libraries, the Library of Congress, Amazon? Indeed, in the worst case data may need to be removed to make the whole OL dumps/live content shareable under an Open Data licence. The OpenStreetMap project changed their licence from CC-BY-SA to ODBl because the latter was apparently better for sharing data(bases). The change involved lots of discussion and agreements from each and every user to agree to the new licence or have his/her contributions removed on a certain date. Perhaps objects were reverted to the last edit n in a chain of edits (1, 2, ..., n, n+1, n+2, ...) in which all contributors agreed to the new licence. Contributions from companies (like a map producer who provided complete data for some countries) also had to be relicenced which required a bit of lobbying, but didn't pose a lot of trouble. It is important to note that the OSM community has been pretty strict on only allowing original data or donations of data by the rightsholder under the right licence terms. About the cover images: isn't there a fair use in allowing low resolution images for book identification purposes? I believe Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons has some rules or guidelines for using copyrighted images. "I believe that although this image is copyrighted, its display here is fair use, because .. no open alternative, small enough to discourage reuse... etc." Ben _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
