At 11:46 AM +0200 2003/09/10, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
If you are concerned about the cost, you could place a copyright on the collected data so that re-use for RIPE NCC members does not incur an additional charge, and perhaps allow academic re-use by non-RIPE NCC members to likewise be without fee, but for-profit non-RIPE NCC members would be required to contact you first and arrange to pay a fee if they wanted to reuse the data or the results.
The whole point is that a detaled analysis of the data published for all to see. I cannot see how to apply copyright in this environment.
You can apply copyright both to the collection of the data, and to the compilation of the data. Telephone companies publish directories with a certain number of known false entries. If another telephone company comes along and wholesale copies the data, they get the false entries along with the good ones. The copyright owner can then look for the known false entries, and if they see them, then they can prove that the other company illegally copied the data. You wouldn't want to publish any known false entries, but you can still claim copyright on the compilation of the data, and the analysis you apply. That is, if you want to. You don't have to. But this would be one potential way to allow people who should have free access to the data to do so, while also requiring that those who can afford it to pay their fare share. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)