Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-03-14 Thread mrunmayee sahoo
can you suggest me any idea for project...in india On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.auwrote: Landon, At [1] you’ll find the report from the ‘Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data’ from Australia’s Victorian

[OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

2012-03-13 Thread Landon Blake
OSGeo Folks: I'm giving a talk to CCVGPG (http://www.ccvgpg.org), our local GIS user group this Friday. My talk will be about copyright and licensing of geospatial data. I've found a good amount of information on copyright and a bit on its application to GIS. However, I haven't found much at all

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

2012-03-13 Thread Alex Mandel
On 03/13/2012 10:06 AM, Landon Blake wrote: OSGeo Folks: I'm giving a talk to CCVGPG (http://www.ccvgpg.org), our local GIS user group this Friday. My talk will be about copyright and licensing of geospatial data. I've found a good amount of information on copyright and a bit on its

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

2012-03-13 Thread Landon Blake
Thanks Alex. I'm interested specifically in US law for this talk. I'm familiar with copyright law and how it applies to geospatial data. However, most of what I know about licensing comes from software and the local agency licenses for geospatial data that I deal with. I'll do some more poking

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

2012-03-13 Thread Keith Jenkins
Hi, Landon. You might want to look at Robert Goodspeed's recent article looking at the response to GIS data requests that he sent to hundreds of local governments across Massachusetts. His article (open-acess!) has a whole section discussing the various licensing restrictions and data policies

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

2012-03-13 Thread mrunmayee sahoo
sir.can you please send me some free sites to download more papers related to papers related to grass gis. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Keith Jenkins k...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi, Landon. You might want to look at Robert Goodspeed's recent article looking at the response to GIS data

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data

2012-03-13 Thread Fawcett, David (MPCA)
I don't know of any good summaries, but there has been considerable discussion within the OpenStreetMap 'community' regarding licensing for spatial data. OSM data was originally published under a CC-By license, but based on the decision of the OSM Foundation, it has adopted a new license under

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-03-13 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Landon, At [1] you'll find the report from the 'Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data' from Australia's Victorian Parliament. Their approach is to move towards a Creative Commons scheme. This allows the recognition of the data set creator's copyright.