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[Stefano Costa]

Interessante evento di cui i risvolti potrebbero dare buoni frutti
oltreoceano.

Ciao
steko

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> Data: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:28:11 -0600
> 
> Law and the GeoWeb
> ==================
> 
> A workshop on "Intellectual Property and Geographic Data in the
> Internet Era" sponsored by Creative Commons and the United States
> Geological Survey (USGS) in conjunction with the annual meeting of
> AAG, April 11, 2011, Seattle, Washington. The workshop will be held at
> the campus of Microsoft Research, and will be streamed live on the
> Internet.
> 
> This workshop will focus on intellectual property issues with
> geographic data, exploring situations when users and creators ranging
> from individuals to local, state and federal agencies as well as
> private companies and non-profits create, share and reuse geographic
> information from different sources over the Internet in their
> projects.
> 
> For more information, please see http://punkish.org/geoweb/index.html
> or search on Twitter for #lawandgeoweb
> 
> Rationale
> =========
> 
> U.S Copyright Law protects tangible original works with creative
> content but the law also ensures that facts, that is, data that are
> discovered rather than invented, remain free for everyone's benefit.
> This ideas/expression dichotomy creates a lot of issues in the
> Internet age when information is very easily created, shared, used and
> reused.
> 
> With inexpensive computing and networking power available to everyone,
> geographic datasets are increasingly being created, shared and used by
> individuals, grassroots organizations, and private corporations. These
> data come with different expectations with regards to how they may be
> used resulting in a hodgepodge of licensing and contractual
> obligations that hinders data interoperability. Mixing data of
> different provenance creates new data with typically more restrictive
> licensing conditions. Public agencies may be unable to mix licensed
> data with government data due to restrictive licensing terms of the
> resultant dataset, and thus, may be unable to capitalize on and
> benefit from user-generated content.
> 
> Workshop Structure
> ==================
> 
> The current line-up of speakers from federal, state and local
> agencies, Creative Commons, grassroots agencies, intellectual property
> lawyers, the geospatial industry, and research and academia includes:
> 
> * Ed Arabas, National States Geographic Information Council
> * Greg Babinski, King County, State of Washington
> * Michael Brick, Microsoft Legal, Bing Maps
> * Steve Coast, Founder, Open Street Maps
> * Kari Craun, Director, National Geospatial Technical Operations, USGS
> * Ed Parsons, Chief Technologist, Google Maps, Google
> * Diane Peters, General Counsel, Creative Commons
> * Tim Trainor, Bureau Chief, Geography Division, US Census Bureau
> * Paul Uhlir, Director, Board for Research, Data and Information, NRC
> 
> The format of the workshop will encourage discussion and participation.
> 
> Participate
> ===========
> 
> To ensure those directly involved in the topic get a chance to attend
> the workshop, attendance is based on a short application form
> accessible at
> http://punkish.org/geoweb/participate/in_person/index.html. Deadline
> for applying for the workshop is December 18, 2010. Selected
> applicants will be informed by January 15, 2011.
> 
> Attendees will also be able to submit longer papers for publication in
> a special issue of the peer-reviewed, completely free and open access
> online journal "International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure
> Research" published by the Joint Research Centre of the European
> Commission.
> 
> Logistics
> =========
> 
> The workshop is organized in conjunction with the AAG annual meeting.
> The workshop will be held on the campus of Microsoft Research, and run
> from 1 PM to 5 PM on Monday, April 11, 2011.
> 
> There is no fee for this workshop and participants do not have to
> register for the AAG Annual Meeting. The workshop is limited to 50
> participants to facilitate discussion.
> 
> Proceedings of the workshop and selected longer papers will be
> published in a special issue of the open-access International Journal
> of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research published by the Joint
> Research Centre of the European Commission.
> 
> Contact
> =======
> 
> Please contact either Puneet Kishor, Creative Commons
> [punkish a creativecommons.org] or Barbare Poore, USGS
> [bspoore a usgs.gov] if you have any questions.
> 
> 
> 
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Stefano Costa
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