John, Kingsley,
Thanks for the valuable links you've sent.
Well, beyond the Pythagorean idea that "the world is made up of
numbers", if laws make a distinction Data/Code, so must we. And
international laws implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT [1]), which
explicitly addresses both in two consecutive articles:
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*/A) /*/*Art4. Computer Programs.*//Computer programs are protected
as literary works within the meaning of Article 2 of the Berne
Convention.[...]/
*/B) /*/*Art5. Compilations of Data (Databases).*////Compilations of
data or other material, in any form, which by reason of the
selection or arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual
creations, are protected as such [...]./
So Computer Programs are intellectual property works, but Databases are
only works if they are "intellectual creations". Yet, in Europe some
/sui generis/ rights are recognized even for those databases not
qualifying to become works.
Thus, I believe Linked Data can be either:
a) Fully covered by intellectual property law
b) Partially covered, if considered as database.
c) Not protected at all.
Unfortunately, this has to be analyzed case by case. My examples:
a) An OWL ontology, resulting from a hard work.
b) An RDF dataset with the average temperatures of Madrid through the years.
c) A RDF mapping automatically obtained by an analysis tool.
Regards,
Víctor
[1] WIPO Copyright Treaty:
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=295166
El 25/07/2013 15:38, Kingsley Idehen escribió:
In my eyes, Data is Code and Code is Data. Turtle and other (concrete
RDF syntaxes) are simply encoding notations (so they are code).
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Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel
D3205 - Ontology Engineering Group (OEG)
Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Campus de Montegancedo s/n
Boadilla del Monte-28660 Madrid, Spain
Tel. (+34) 91336 3672
Skype: vroddon3
