On Mon, December 24, 2007 9:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Beste Talk'ers, > > Kwam dit op Livre.nl tegen: > 'Onderzoek bruikbaarheid CC-licenties voor overheidsinformatie' > http://www.livre.nl/nieuws/juridisch/onderzoek-bruikbaarheid-cc-licenties-voor-overheidsinformatie-24122007.html > > Met een verwijzing naar > http://www.ivir.nl/publications/eechoud/CC_PublicSectorInformation_report.pdf
Interessant! Enkele citaten: "The use of Creative Commons has various advantages over either not reserving rights, over reserving them in some law or decision rather than on the work itself, or over the use of reservations specific to a public sector body: Creative Commons licenses are ready to use, public sector bodies do not need to draw up their own licenses but can benefit from the expertise brought together in CC. Use of the licenses, nationally and internationally, is expanding quickly, aiding recognition and acceptance. The licenses are standardized which adds to transparency for the user; at the same time however the licensor still has a fair amount of flexibility because the optional conditions of use, enables a public sector body to choose the license most suited to its information policy for particular data/content. The lack of transparency in public sector licenses The icons and the human readable Commons Deed are user friendly and give citizens (including businesses, interest groups) a much clearer indication of which rights are reserved and to what extent, and what kind of use is allowed. The licensing information is linked to the content, in the metadata of the website, its pages or individual files (e.g. as exchanged in peer-to-peer networks or other distribution outside the web), providing stable clarification of which documents (or works) fall under the license and which do not. Creative Commons (and iCommons) offers community based development of free tools to improve the infrastructure for licenses and standards,108 allowing public sector bodies to share knowledge and benefit from the work of others. The technical implementation of the license makes it easier to search for re-usable works.109 Creative Commons stimulates interoperability of its licenses with other open information licenses. Care must be given to the choice of the optionals: share-alike, non-commercial and noderivatives are not necessarily compatible with either freedom of information law or the regulatory framework for re-use." "CC licenses at first glance seem most suited to attach to actively disseminated works (art. 8-9 Wob). But they could be attached to information supplied on request as well. Particularly as the use of internet increasingly blurs the distinction between active and passive dissemination. It has been argued that once information has been successfully Wobbed , i.e. documents have been given after a request, the public authority should make the documents publicly available (on its website), which would also be a good opportunity to attach a PD declaration or BY-license to it." "The quick scan we performed shows that at the moment (fall 2007) there are still just a few organisations within the Dutch public sector that use Creative Commons licenses. However, if one looks at the actual terms of licensing used, notably on many website of public sector bodies, these show elements of Creative Commons licensing (e.g. use is free on condition that the source is acknowledged compares to the attribution (BY) license). Essentially, a move towards Creative Commons licensing would not mean a change of access and re-use policy, but merely the application of a tool instrumental in realising existing liberal government information policies." vriendelijke groet, cordialmente, Ante _______________________________________________ Talk-nl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-nl
