[od-discuss] Open Data Buttons

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> Ah the curse of changing themes in wordpress -- all your footer
> widgets go walkabout.
>
> This is actually a serious problem. Many licences are attached to sites
and containers rather than documents and components of documents. I have
had the same problem as Rufus - I don't control my wordpress site and every
so often the licence gets dropped.

It's even worse for images. If I publish in an Open Access journal (CC-BY)
and someone re-uses an image (which they may, of course do) then the image
doesn't carry a licence automatically. Yes, the re-user is required to
carry the licence but it's hard work for each image and some of us
occasionally slip up. Is there a solution for this?

Let's assume that an author wished to protect their images from downstream
appropriation. Is there a tool for embedding something in the image that
obviously shows that it has been made CC-CY or CC0 or whatever so that a
re-publisher cannot stamp their copyright on it? This applies very strongly
to science where I'd like to see a way of protecting the Openness of images
before the publishers claim them. (I'm thinking of images such as graphs
the authors or the authors software drew, not cultural works)

P.

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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