In addition to model licenses themselves, it is critically important to develop best practices for explicitly asserting these licenses in machine readable ways.
Perhaps the most important contribution of Creative Commons made to the Web of Document-like Things was to provide model licenses in machine-readable formats, via RDFa. Doing the same thing for data licenses will be critical.
Finally, it should be noted that commercial licenses should not be ignored. Commercial entities need to understand ways they can play nicely, one of which is explicit machine readable terms for use of their data.
The ECS Southampton blob is now public domain! CCZero
In addition to model licenses themselves, it is critically important to develop best practices for explicitly asserting these licenses in machine readable ways.
Perhaps the most important contribution of Creative Commons made to the Web of Document-like Things was to provide model licenses in machine-readable formats, via RDFa. Doing the same thing for data licenses will be critical.
Finally, it should be noted that commercial licenses should not be ignored. Commercial entities need to understand ways they can play nicely, one of which is explicit machine readable terms for use of their data.
Very good…