[OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain, OSM Data

[John Wilbanks]

CC Zero attempts to fix this. I'm not sure where the process sits right 
now - but the core issue is that the public domain is not a simple thing 
to reconstruct.

That's why at SC we actually didn't create a single legal tool to create 
the PD, but instead a protocol. This is more in the spirit of technical 
standards documents than "use this contract" - it allows a flourishing 
of ways to implement.

Jordan Hatcher is the author of the Public Domain Dedication License by 
the way, not CC. However, the PDDL is the only license that SC currently 
certifies as compliant with the protocol - CC Zero isn't there yet.

See: 
http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/

And:
http://www.opendatacommons.org/odc-public-domain-dedication-and-licence/

jtw

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Sunburned Surveyor
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > I suppose there is the Public Domain Dedication from the Creative
 > > Commons that we could use as well, although that will have to be
 > > discussed among the participants. Or the Open Data Commons Public
 > > Domain Dedication and License,
 > >
 > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
 > > 
http://www.opendatacommons.org/odc-public-domain-dedication-and-licence/

The CC PD dedication has the usual problems in jurisdictions where you
can't waive your rights.

CC Zero is designed to fix this, I believe.