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<title>ODC Attribution License (ODC-By) Draft 0.9</title>
<link>http://opendatacommons.core.okfn.org/?page_id=376</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>The most up to date discussion draft is at <a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/draft/">http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/draft/</a></strong>
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<h3>Disclaimer</h3>
Open Data Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal services of any kind.
Open Data Commons has no formal relationship with you. Your receipt of this document does not create any kind of agent-client relationship. Please seek the advice of a suitably qualified legal professional licensed to practice in your jurisdiction before using this document.
No warranties and disclaimer of any damages. This information is provided ‘as is‘, and this site makes no warranties on the information provided. Any damages resulting from its use are disclaimed.
<h3>Plain language summary</h3>
Will be available once 1.0!
<h3>Alternative formats:</h3>
<a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/odc-by-draft.txt">Plain Text</a> - <a href="http://www.co-ment.net/text/2091/">Co-ment Version (for comments)</a>
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<h2>ODC Attribution License (ODC-By)</h2>
<h3>Preamble</h3>
The Open Data Commons Attribution License is a license agreement
intended to allow users to freely share, modify, and use this Data(base)
subject only to the attribution requirements set out in section 4.
Databases can contain a wide variety of types of content (images,
audiovisual material, and sounds all in the same database, for example),
and so this license only governs the rights over the Database, and not
the contents of the Database individually. Licensors may therefore wish
to use this license together with another license for the contents.
Sometimes the contents of a database, or the database itself, can be
covered by other rights not addressed here (such as private contracts,
trade mark over the name, or privacy rights / data protection rights
over information in the contents), and so you are advised that you may
have to consult other documents or clear other rights before doing
activities not covered by this License.
<hr />
The Licensor (as defined below)
and
You (as defined below)
agree as follows:
<h3>1.0 Definitions of Capitalised Words</h3>
"Collective Database" – Means this Database in unmodified form as part
of a collection of independent databases in themselves that together are
assembled into a collective whole. A work that constitutes a Collective
Database will not be considered a Derivative Database.
"Convey" – As a verb, means Using the Database, a Derivative Database,
or the Database as part of a Collective Database in any way that enables
a Person to make or receive copies of the Database or a Derivative
Database. Conveying does not include interaction with a user through a
computer network, or creating and Using a Produced Work, where no
transfer of a copy of the Database or a Derivative Database occurs.
"Contents" – The contents of this Database, which includes the
information, independent works, or other material collected into the
Database. For example, the contents of the Database could be factual
data or works such as images, audiovisual material, text, or sounds.
"Database" – A collection of material (the Contents) arranged in a
systematic or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic
or other means offered under the terms of this License.
"Database Directive" – Means Directive 96/9/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection
of databases, as amended or succeeded.
"Database Right" – Means rights resulting from the Chapter III ("sui
generis") rights in the Database Directive (as amended and as transposed
by member states), which includes the Extraction and Re-utilisation of
the whole or a Substantial part of the Contents, as well as any similar
rights available in the relevant jurisdiction under Section 10.4.
"Derivative Database" – Means a database based upon the Database, and
includes any translation, adaptation, arrangement, modification, or any
other alteration of the Database or of a Substantial part of the
Contents. This includes, but is not limited to, Extracting or
Re-utilising the whole or a Substantial part of the Contents in a new
Database.
"Extraction" – Means the permanent or temporary transfer of all or a
Substantial part of the Contents to another medium by any means or in
any form.
"License" – Means this license agreement and is both a license of rights
such as copyright and Database Rights and an agreement in contract.
"Licensor" – Means the Person that offers the Database under the terms
of this License.
"Person" – Means a natural or legal person or a body of persons
corporate or incorporate.
"Produced Work" – a work (such as an image, audiovisual material, text,
or sounds) resulting from using the whole or a Substantial part of the
Contents (via a search or other query) from this Database, a Derivative
Database, or this Database as part of a Collective Database.
"Publicly" – means to Persons other than You or under Your control by
either more than 50% ownership or by the power to direct their
activities (such as contracting with an independent consultant).
"Re-utilisation" – means any form of making available to the public all
or a Substantial part of the Contents by the distribution of copies, by
renting, by online or other forms of transmission.
"Substantial" – Means substantial in terms of quantity or quality or a
combination of both. The repeated and systematic Extraction or
Re-utilisation of insubstantial parts of the Contents may amount to the
Extraction or Re-utilisation of a Substantial part of the Contents.
"Use" – As a verb, means doing any act that is restricted by copyright
or Database Rights whether in the original medium or any other; and
includes without limitation distributing, copying, publicly performing,
publicly displaying, and preparing derivative works of the Database, as
well as modifying the Database as may be technically necessary to use it
in a different mode or format.
"You" – Means a Person exercising rights under this License who has not
previously violated the terms of this License with respect to the
Database, or who has received express permission from the Licensor to
exercise rights under this License despite a previous violation.
Words in the singular include the plural and vice versa.
<h3>2.0 What this License covers</h3>
2.1. Legal effect of this document. This License is:
a. A license of applicable copyright and neighbouring rights;
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### Getting in Touch
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### Advisory Council
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### History
In December 2007 Open Data Commons was created by Jordan Hatcher as the home for the drafting of the first ever ‘open’ database license: the Public Domain Dedication and License. The license was written by [Jordan Hatcher](http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/) and [Dr Charlotte Waelde](http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/) with their work funded by Talis.
Seeking a more long-term home for this endeavour, in January 2009 Jordan transferred the Open Data Commons project to the [Open Knowledge Foundation][okfn]. While the Foundation is responsible for hosting ODC and running it on a day-to-day basis, ultimate responsibility for management and drafting of the licenses (plus associated material) lies with the [Advisory Council][ac].
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[okfn]:http://www.okfn.org/.
### Thanks
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* [Attribution License (ODC-By)](by/) — “Attribution for data/databases”
* [Open Database License (ODC-ODbL)](odbl/) — “Attribution Share-Alike for data/databases”
### Applying a License
For instructions on how to apply the licenses to your material please see each license’s home page.
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<content:encoded><. Norms have **no legal status** and so, by themselves, do not make the data open.
* [ODC Attribution-Sharealike Community Norms](odc-by-sa)
### FAQ
#### Are Community Norms binding?
No. Absolutely not. The Community Norms document sets out how the norms for those that share data. These are like other norms and are free to be ignored, but may result in others not wishing to share data back with you. This document is all about setting out some general principles that those who share data should adhere to in regards to the data.
#### I want different Community Norms. Can I make my own?
You can absolutely create any norms that you want to go with the Public Domain Dedication & Licence — in fact it is designed that way. The PDDL can work with any Community Norms statement, so long as the Community Norms statement doesn’t try to become a contract. We suggest that you use the first paragraph in order to have consistency between Community Norms statements. You can then label your norms in the following format “NAME OF COMMUNITY Community Norms”
#### Why all this stuff about contracts?
In general norms are going to be used with a licenses such as the PDDL which eliminates all restrictions on usage of the data, not just IP restrictions such as copyright or database rights. Therefore this includes contracts. Without specifically addressing that the Community Norms statement is not a contract, it could be construed as one because it requests that users of the data do certain acts in exchange for using the data.
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3. Community Norms — see separate [Norms FAQ](/norms/)
4. Relation to Other Tools and Projects
### General
#### Who Manages Open Data Commons?
See the [information on the about page](/about/).
#### I Want to Get in Touch, How Do I Do That?
Have a question not answered here, want to participate in our work, want to get in touch for whatever reason? See the [contact page](/about/contact/) for information on how do so including details of our public community discussion list.
#### Why Does Openness and Licensing Matter?
Why bother about openness and licensing for data? After all they don’t matter in themselves: what we really care about are things like the progress of human knowledge or the freedom to understand and share.
However, open data is crucial to progress on these more fundamental items. It’s crucial because open data is so much easier to break-up and recombine, to use and reuse. We therefore want people to have incentives to make their data open and for open data to be easily usable and reusable — i.e. for open data to form a ‘commons’.
A good definition of openness acts as a standard that ensures different open datasets are ‘interoperable’ and therefore do form a commons. Licensing is important because it reduces uncertainty. Without a license you don’t know where you, as a user, stand: when are you allowed to use this data? Are you allowed to give to others? To distribute your own changes, etc?
Together, a definition of openness, plus a set of conformant licenses deliver clarity and simplicity. Not only is interoperability ensured but people can know at a glance, and without having to go through a whole lot of legalese, what they are free to do. (For more see this article and this post).
**Thus, licensing and definitions are important even though they are only a small part of the overall picture. If we get them wrong they will keep on getting in the way of everything else. If we get them right we can stop worrying about them and focus our full energies on other things.**
For more see [this blog post][okfn-post].
[okfn-post]:https://blog.okfn.org/2009/02/02/open-data-openness-and-licensing/
#### What do you mean by open data
See the [Open Definition][od].
[od]:http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0/
#### Do I need this legal stuff, can’t I just post my data online?
The simple is: no — and yes you do need this legal stuff. Whether one likes it or not there are a whole bunch of jurisdictions in the world where there are IP rights in data(bases). Thus if you want your data to be open, even if that means public domain, you need to apply a license (or something very like a license).
For more about open data licensing and data(base) rights see the [Guide to Open Data Licensing][guide].
[guide]:http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenDataLicensing
### Licenses