[cc-community] copyright on data?
Chris Watkins
chriswaterguy at appropedia.org
Sun Apr 26 06:12:31 EDT 2009
I'm thinking of WiserEarth's data, which is under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.
We'd like to access this data for our own projects, but we use a CC-BY-SA
license - the NC clause means their work is incompatible.
The question is: as they're under US law, is the basic data public domain,
seeing as it's something akin to a phone book? Contact details, address,
organization name and contact person's name - my understanding is that this
can't be copyrighted in the US.
Then there's the area that they work in - activism, appropriate technology,
microfinance etc. That's slightly different, but being simply a brief piece
of data, I'm guessing that's public domain also - is that right?
Obviously longer text extracts can be copyrighted, so we can't use them when
our licenses are incompatible.
Chris
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