Presentation on openness with a bit of a future gazing hat on. jordanhatcher.com and okfn.org

1. Open: Rewards and Challenges
Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM
Co-founder, Open Data Commons
Board of Directors, Open Knowledge Foundation
Lawyer and strategy consultant in IP/IT
www.okfn.org

3. – www.opendefinition.org
– open as in accessible
– transparent

4. • Use
• Reuse
• Redistribute
“open”
• Commercial use allowed
• Attribution & Share Alike
requirements = okay
www.opendefinition.org

5. Rewards

11. extra benefits of open knowledge

12. http://www.eff.org/cases/online-policy-group-v-diebold
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16. Challenges

21. Open licensing

22. Thanks!
www.OpenDataCommons.org
www.okfn.org/support
Jordan S. Hatcher
e: webcontact ]AT[ opencontentlawyer D O T com
w: www.jordanhatcher.com
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23. Questions?

24. www.data.gov.uk is the home of lots of great data
www.data.worldbank.org is the home for the World Bank’s open data.
London Map
Map data CC-BY-SA Open Street Map and contributors
Where Does My Money Go? is at http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/
www.fishsubsidy.org and www.farmsubsidy.org are projects of EU Transparency at http://
www.followthemoney.eu/
The Unlocking Aid Info report is at http://www.unlockingaid.info/ produced with the great folks at
www.aid.info
Voting for the Future
CC-BY by lowjumpingfrog
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenorton/2218973585/>
Red Hat logo is at
Google Finance data is at <http://www.google.com/finance?q=red+hat>

25. iPhone screenshot - parts presumably ©Apple and the developers of the Apps featured on the page.
Project Gaydar story is by Carolyn Y. Johnson and published by the Boston Globe on September 20,
2009 at: <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/
project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/>
Netflix CARNAGE | CC-BY-SA by Ross Catrow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxpower/151384059/sizes/o/
dogz on teh internets | CC-BY-SA by TheGiantVermin
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/tudor/3324923076/>
Digital Britain website screenshot - Department of Business Innovation & Skills and at <http://
interactive.bis.gov.uk/digitalbritain/tag/debill/>
Christine Merrill | CC-BY by SD Dirk
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirkhansen/4413253440/>
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26. Thanks!
www.OpenDataCommons.org
www.okfn.org/support
Jordan S. Hatcher
e: webcontact ]AT[ opencontentlawyer D O T com
w: www.jordanhatcher.com
All original and CC-BY-SA derivative works licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/

27. Questions?