Good work, Pascal. Some minor comments: 1) Licenses (and license compliance) are issues with much broader communities, including Open Source software and other forms of open content.
2) I wish you had used the term Linked *Open* Data to avoid purely commercial users of Linked Data being confused. Regards, Dave -- http://about.me/david_wood On May 17, 2013, at 22:15, Pascal Hitzler <[email protected]> wrote: > We just finished a piece indicating serious legal issues regarding the > commercialization of Linked Data - this may be of general interest, hence the > post. We hope to stimulate discussions on this issue (hence the provokative > title). > > Available from > http://knoesis.wright.edu/faculty/pascal/pub/nomoneylod.pdf > > Abstract. > Linked Data (LD) has been an active research area for more than 6 years and > many aspects about publishing, retrieving, linking, and cleaning Linked Data > have been investigated. There seems to be a broad and general agreement that > in principle LD datasets can be very useful for solving a wide variety of > problems ranging from practical industrial analytics to highly specific > research problems. Having these notions in mind, we started exploring the use > of notable LD datasets such as DBpedia, Freebase, Geonames and others for a > commercial application. However, it turns out that using these datasets in > realistic settings is not always easy. Surprisingly, in many cases the > underlying issues are not technical but legal barriers erected by the LD data > publishers. In this paper we argue that these barriers are often not > justified, detrimental to both data publishers and users, and are often built > without much consideration of their consequences. > > Authors: > Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Chitra Venkatramani > > -- > Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler > Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH > [email protected] http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ > Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org > Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net > >
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