[open-archaeology] Open licenses for archaeological data matter: the case of AustArch

[Anthony Beck]

ear Stefano,

I agree with this and came to a similar point in relation to DART...

http://antarch.calepin.co/dart-licences-and-the-ads.html

http://blog.okfn.org/2014/04/17/building-an-archaeological-project-repository-ii-where-are-the-research-data-repositories/

The OKF blog raises an interesting point in relation to the ADS licence:

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The ADS uses a more restrictive bespoke default licence which does not 
map to national or international licence schemes (they also don’t 
recognise non CC licences). Resources under this licence can only be 
used for teaching, learning, and research purposes. Of particular 
concern is their use of the NC clause and possible use of the ND clause 
(depending on how you interpret the licence). Interestingly, policy 
changes mean that the use of data under the bespoke ADS licence becomes 
problematic if university teaching activities are determined to be 
commercial. It is arguable that the payment of tuition fees represents a 
commercial activity. If this is true then resources released under the 
ADS licence can not be used within university teaching which is part of 
a commercial activity. Hence, the policy change in student tuition and 
university funding has an impact on the commercial nature of university 
teaching which has a subsequent impact on what data or resources 
universities are licensed to use. Whilst it may never have been the 
intention of the ADS to produce a licence with this potential paradox, 
it is a problem when bespoke licences are developed, even if they were 
originally perceived to be relatively permissive licences. To remove 
this ambiguity it is recommended that submissions to the ADS are 
provided under a CC licence which renders the bespoke ADS licence void. 
- See more at: 
http://blog.okfn.org/2014/04/17/building-an-archaeological-project-repository-ii-where-are-the-research-data-repositories/#sthash.pD3RLG9X.dpuf
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Hope these thoughts help......

Best

A nt
On 29/07/14 22:53, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Dear all,
> this list is admittedly not very active, however I'd like to share some
> observations I made about the terms of service of the Archaeology Data
> Service, that started from a discussion on Twitter:
>
> http://archaeology.okfn.org/2014/07/29/open-licenses-for-archaeological-data-matter-the-case-of-austarch/
>
> In short: I think custom licenses such as the ADS terms of use are
> archaeological remains and should be replaced by standard, open
> licenses. As Colleen Morgan succinctly put it:
>
> 	What about the professional archaeologists among us?
> 	They need media [and data] too.
>
> Perhaps we could gather more comments on this and see if there is
> momentum towards a wider action?
>
> All the best, ciao
> Stefano
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