[open-government] Masters thesis: "The British Open Data Ecosystem"

Fri Mar 28 15:26:08 UTC 2014

Hi Tarek,

first please excuse my late reply as I have been abroad for a while. I
checked your question with my universities library and  forward you the
relevant parts of the reply.

tl;dr: there are no constraints by the university

" The copyright in your MSc thesis resides with you, and you are entitled
to reuse your work under your choice of licence. A caveat to this would be
where it contains third party copyright material, intellectual property
that was deemed to be commercially exploitable, or anything of a
confidential nature. There is a note on this in the University Postgraduate
policy:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/policy/tlac/postgraduate/taught/#d.en.53885

In publishing any piece of work under a CC licence you need to ensure that
you state if any content contained in the work is not covered. Given the
subject of your thesis you are probably aware of this, but the relevant
guidance is contained in the CC licence deed
"*Considerations for licensors:* Our public licenses are intended for use
by those authorized to give the public permission to use material in ways
otherwise restricted by copyright and certain other rights. Our licenses
are irrevocable. Licensors should read and understand the terms and
conditions of the license they choose before applying it. Licensors should
also secure all rights necessary before applying our licenses so that the
public can reuse the material as expected. * Licensors should clearly mark
any material not subject to the license.* This includes other CC-licensed
material, or material used under an exception or limitation to copyright. More
considerations for
licensors.<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Considerations_for_licensors_and_licensees#Considerations_for_licensors>"

I am not aware of any specific University guidance on this [...]"

I hope that answers your question.

Best wishes

Max.

2014-03-05 11:17 GMT+01:00 Tarek Amr <tarekamr at gmail.com>:

> I have a question about publishing your thesis under Creative Commons
> license, it is more of a legal question.
> Is it the author's right to license his thesis the way he wants, or the
> university is involved here, and they have to agree under which license the
> thesis is to be licensed?
>
>
>
> On 4 March 2014 18:09, Ricardo Matheus <ricardomatheus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations for the dissertation, Maximilian.
>>
>> I will read it to collect some insights for Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) open
>> data ecosystem.
>>
>> Please, let me also introduce what we have been doing under the tropics:
>> http://www.opendataresearch.org/project/2013/jcv
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ricardo Matheus
>>
>> Ricardo Matheus
>> PhD Candidate at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft) - The
>> Netherlands
>> Master of Sciences in Administration - FEA/USP
>> Bachelor in Public Policy Management - EACH/USP
>> University of São Paulo - USP
>> +55 (11) 9 7227-7521
>>
>>
>> On 24 February 2014 13:25, Maximilian Heimstädt <
>> m.heimstaedt at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> in summer 2013 I spend some time at the Open Data Institute in London
>>> working on my interview-based M.Sc. dissertation. Its entitled "The British
>>> Open Data Ecosystem". Today I finally found some time to upload an open
>>> version to my PhD blog, together with some thoughts on publishing even
>>> minor academic work under free licenses.
>>>
>>> Dissertation:
>>> http://www.heimstaedt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dissertation_CC.pdf
>>>
>>> Blogpost: http://www.heimstaedt.com/british-open-data-ecosystem/
>>>
>>> Might be a nice read for some of you. And it features Rufus :)
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Max.
>>>
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>
> --
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> Tarek Amr
>
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>
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