Posted by
Hugh McGuire on
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/link-to-MP-from-ISF-pages-tp211p242.html
Hi-
I don't know where this falls into this discussion & if it's relevant.
but my main interest of late has been audio & what's going to happen on
the net. one of my big hopes is that uni profs start putting their
lectures online. there's the question of IP though, who owns those
lectures: the university? the prof? the tax-payers who finance universities?
I vote #3, but there will be a big battle over this in coming years. So
one thing I'd like to see is a movement among uni profs to give their
content away for free via mp3 to anyone who wants it; prob with some
varriation of a Creative Commons license. and a movement of students to
help them do it.
Right now they give their content away to scholarly journals, who charge
outrageous subscription fess, and keep content closed off: so no one
gets to read the content. all that -- written & audio-should be
available to me for free, as a canadian who finances universities with
my taxes.
So I throw this idea out, just for some thoughts & comments...
Hugh.
Russell McOrmond wrote:
> Daniel Haran wrote:
>
>>It's kind of absurd to me that our electoral data is half-free. The
>>idea that if I put all of this data on my website it's OK, but if I
>>send you an entire copy of the data, and charge you for it, I'm
>>somehow in need of a license. As if a customer of mine coudln't
>>simply download their own data set. Oh well, for now we can play with
>>free maps :)
>
>
> This is what is expected, and is one huge leap forward. It is
> effectively an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Canada license, which would
> be great for Elections Canada to document formally with a license rather
> than via a "verbal"-like agreement.
>
>
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ca/>
> Releasing the information into the public domain, where commercial
> uses can be made of it without interacting with Elections Canada, would
> surprise me. It is an ideal goal (It is what the US does), but it is a
> big change from the draconian license used for the PCFRF (Postal Code to
> Federal Riding) data file.
>