Open Source Database Licensing

Authors

New York Law School

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Description

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Database owners are increasingly seeking ways to make their data available so that others can contribute to and build on their work. This “open data” movement emphasizes the importance of sharing data for both scientific development and humanitarian response. The willingness of database owners to make their data available for re-use depends on their ability to impose conditions on that release, which requires consideration of the varying levels of copyright protection afforded to databases across jurisdictions.

Publication Date

4-21-2010

Recommended Citation

New York Law School, "Open Source Database Licensing" (2010). Institute for Information Law and Policy at NYLS (Event Posters). 15.
https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/iilp/15