the wonderfull opportunities created by OpenStreetMap and the legal aspects around the project with a short focus on Italy.
Presented during
Open Data in Transition: Intellectual Property, Competition Policy, and Regulatory Issues
http://www.unitn.it/economia/evento/32719/open-data-in-transition
Organized by WIPO and UNITN
PS: if you know openstreetmap, you have to start from the slide 23
OpenStreetMap open data ecosystem between opportunities and legal conundrums
1. OpenStreetMap
open data ecosystem between opportunities
and legal conundrums
Maurizio Napolitano
Open Data Institute – Trento Node
FBK
Open Data in Transition:
Intellectual property, competition, and regulatory issues
Thursday 19 th December 2013, Trento Italy
http://unitn.it/economia/evento/32719/open-data-in-transition
24. History of the license
2005
2009
Licensing Working Group
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25. Why CC-BY-SA is Unsuitable
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Combining CC BY-SA with Other Data
Share-Alike
Uncertainty and doubt over extent of derived work
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osm
Which license?
layer of closed data
Which license for the map?
osmf need is to enforce copyright on the database only
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Unsuitable
26. Solution: ODbL
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
Permission
Restriction
December 2009
55% of eligible members have voted, and 89% of those
who voted have voted yes.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_Yes
19 September 2012 OSM CHANGED THE LICENSE
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/09/11/change-to-odbl-imminent/
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms
27. Is always share a like license
http://www.agenziamobilita.roma.it/servizi/open-data/
29. The relationship with the public administration
The italian case of the license “Ad Simonem”
Allow me to import your data in
OpenStreetMap with a special
authorization
In most the cases these administrations don't distribute their data as open data
30. Some consequences
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Now we understand the
importance of the open data and
we plan to change the license
Portale Cartografico Nazionale
(some false statements)
you are selling data on eBay!!!
our server is under attack!!!
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-it/2010-May/016091.html
33. Some data collected by the mappers
swimming pools (privacy?)
Illegal horse tracks
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Oc
http://cortesi.com/2010/02/mapping-illegal-horse-tracks-with-openstreetmap/