Comments on: OCLC and CC http://travelinlibrarian.info/2008/11/oclc-and-cc/ "You Two! We're at the end of the universe, eh. Right at the edge of knowledge itself. And you're busy... blogging!" — The Doctor, Utopia Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:47:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha hourly 1 By: jrochkind http://travelinlibrarian.info/2008/11/oclc-and-cc/comment-page-1/#comment-1232 jrochkind Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:47:00 +0000 http://travelinlibrarian.info/wordpress/2008/11/oclc-and-cc.html#comment-1232 CC in particular is probably not applicable to cataloging records, because CC is only applicable to things that can be copyrighted, and 'data' generally can not be, and cataloging records are _probably_ mostly data. <br/><br/>The Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License is more applicable:<br/><br/>http://www.opendatacommons.org/odc-public-domain-dedication-and-licence/<br/><br/>Although interestingly, the drafter's of the Open Data Commons stuff decided there was no practical way to have "some rights reserved" under the CC model, the only useful legal thing you could really do with data was put it out in the public domain as 'no rights reserved'. This is very related to the fact that in many jurisdictions including the US, data can't be copyrighted, although it can be controlled by other means. CC in particular is probably not applicable to cataloging records, because CC is only applicable to things that can be copyrighted, and ‘data’ generally can not be, and cataloging records are _probably_ mostly data.

The Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License is more applicable:

http://www.opendatacommons.org/odc-public-domain-dedication-and-licence/

Although interestingly, the drafter’s of the Open Data Commons stuff decided there was no practical way to have “some rights reserved” under the CC model, the only useful legal thing you could really do with data was put it out in the public domain as ‘no rights reserved’. This is very related to the fact that in many jurisdictions including the US, data can’t be copyrighted, although it can be controlled by other means.

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