Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons project

Friday 7 March 2008 16:00 - 17:00

Location: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS (map)

Registration: Please email your name and affiliation to events@oii.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1865 287210

Speaker

Abstract

Perhaps surprisingly for some, data and databases are not a 'rights free' area where no intellectual property rights apply. Open Data Commons was started to provided free and open source software and Creative Commons style licensing solutions for data -- open data. The legal tools being developed have implications both in terms of open access to scientific research and in enabling the semantic web. This talk will discuss the Open Data Commons legal tool -- the Public Domain Dedication & Licence -- and place this work within the greater context of open access and new generations of web tools.

Biographies

  • Jordan Hatcher, Lawyer and Researcher

    Jordan Hatcher is a lawyer and researcher with a focus on intellectual property and Internet law, especially issues surrounding open licensing solutions such as Creative Commons and open data. He has a JD in law from the University of Texas, and a, LLM in IP and IT law from the University of Edinburgh. Jordan is also the author, together with Dr Charlotte Waelde, of the Open Data Commons set of legal tools.

Projects

  • OeSS: The Oxford e-Social Science Project

    October 2005 - March 2012

    The Oxford e-Social Science project aims to understand how e-Research projects negotiate various social, ethical, legal and organizational forces and constraints, in order to help researchers avoid these problems when building scientific collaborations.

Last updated on: 20 May 2013