[OSM-talk-nl] 'Onderzoek bruikbaarheid CC-licenties voor overheidsinformatie'

ante at ffii.org ante at ffii.org
Mon Dec 24 16:08:12 UTC 2007


On Mon, December 24, 2007 9:59 am, bas at softwarefreedomday.nl 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









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