[open-science] on copyright in databases

Mon Feb 23 17:58:49 UTC 2009

Thanks for the link John. This is a great post. I'd agree that it's
complex but so's copyright generally -- not just when applied to DBs.

Of course that's why we all agree that making things clear and simple
is so important -- though I know there are some (relatively small in
my view) differences on how to do that :)

Rufus

2009/2/21 John Wilbanks <wilbanks at creativecommons.org>:
> this is not part of the argument over what to *do* with databases, but
> the beginning of a set of posts about the legal background.
>
> mike is on the board of CC, for disclosure's sake. he's a law professor
> at American University in DC, and he was involved in the early stages of
> the original CC licenses back in 2001. this post covers US copyright and
> databases.
>
> http://carrollogos.blogspot.com/2009/02/copyright-in-databases.html
>
> i was recently challenged to provide a "slogan" for data and the best i
> could do was "it's complicated" - unsatisfying, but at least moderately
> accurate.
>
> jtw
>
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