[od-discuss] Legal assistance request: help to lobby a UK funder to transform a mandated CC-BY-NC to CC-BY

Fri Feb 8 20:12:46 UTC 2013

Dear All,

Jonathan Gray suggested I post my request here.

We, at the working group on open data in archaeology, would like to 
influence the Heritage Lottery Fund to change their data licence from 
CC-BY-NC to CC-BY to stop data fragmentation. You can see our discussion 
thread here:

I have pulled together a document that sets out the arguments which you 
can find here: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nw8kwSYdcLgf_QFo5sugRgrwtDtYZomeJ4Sh9T-T46Y/edit?usp=sharing

The aim is to hold a stakeholder workshop (under the auspices of HLF - 
although funding has to be sorted out) to debate the impact of NC on the 
re-use landscape. Outcomes from this workshop can be used to influence 
HLF and other funders throughout the UK and beyond.

My concern is that I would like the statements in the document 
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nw8kwSYdcLgf_QFo5sugRgrwtDtYZomeJ4Sh9T-T46Y/edit?usp=sharing) 
to be legally factual. It would somewhat undermine the case if any of 
these are wrong.

Can you provide any help? If so what should I do?

Best

Ant