[dns-wg] Re: dnsmon / .org

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 at 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.

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