[cc-community] copyright on data?

Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Sun Apr 26 07:24:07 EDT 2009


On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Chris Watkins
<chriswaterguy at appropedia.org> wrote:
> 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.

You may be interested in:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/OpenDataLicensing

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
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