Call for Applications – Open Knowledge Legal Lab
The Open Knowledge Foundation is proud to launch the Open Knowledge Legal Lab — a new global community of lawyers committed to advancing openness at the frontiers of technology. The…
Open Data Commons in the age of AI and Big Data
AI is bringing forth new types of capture, appropriation and enclosure of data that limits the realisation of its collective societal value.
Open Street Map has officially switched to ODbL – and celebrates with a picnic
Open Street Map is probably the best example of a successful, community driven open data project. The project was started by Steve Coast in 2004 in response to his frustration…
CC license version 4.0: Helping meet the needs of open data publishers and users
Over the last few months, Creative Commons has been working on the next version of its license suite, version 4.0. The goals of version 4.0 are wide-ranging, but the overall…
OCLC, WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities, and Open Data Licensing
The following guest post is from Jim Michalko, VP in charge of the OCLC Research Library Partnership. Karen Calhoun, former VP of Metadata Applications, who has previously been working on…
What do you think about Norway’s new open data license?
The following guest post is from Sverre Andreas Lunde-Danbolt who works for the Department for ICT and renewal in the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs, and…
Keeping Open Government Data Open?
The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. An unprecedented amount of freely reusable government information is currently being released by public bodies around…
Richard Poynder interviews Jordan Hatcher
Open Acccess journalist extraordinaire Richard Poynder recently interviewed the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Jordan Hatcher about data licensing, the public domain, and lots more. An excerpt is reproduced below. The full…
Open Licenses vs Public Licenses
The following post is from Jordan Hatcher, a Director at the Open Knowledge Foundation and founder of the Open Data Commons project. It was originally posted on his blog. Let’s…
Open Data Commons – Attribution License released
Open Data Commons has released a new Open Data Commons attribution license (ODC-By). Jordan Hatcher, Chair of the Open Data Commons Advisory Council, writes: Thanks to everyone for their feedback…