[open-bibliography] Orphan data

[Adrian Pohl]

What about using the Public Domain Mark[1]? If the organizations and
individuals involved in creating and hosting the dataset are known and
none of them claims copyright over the datayou are basically saying:
"This already IS public domain because no one has right sover this
data and thus no one can license it." That's what the PD mark is
intended to be used for.

Or have I misunderstood something? This might be a topic foprm
tomorrow's virtual meeting. Will you attend it, Karen?

Adrian

[1] http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

On 2 March 2012 02:16, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:
> I have run into a case of "orphan data" that, in part, arises from a desire
> to be "open." In this case, an organization hosts -- but does not create --
> bibliographic data in a large database. There are no stated "owners" of any
> of the bibliographic records; they are being shared by a community with no
> one claiming any rights.
>
> When asked to let someone use the data under PDDL (or even CC0), the hosting
> organization declined because they consider themselves to have no rights to
> grant a license.
>
> Thus, openness has led to an "orphan data" problem. Potential users cannot
> obtain a license or even a statement of public domain because there is no
> declared owner.
>
> Any ideas for a solution?
>
> kc
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