Image by foko_madagascar via FlickrToday, a press release that has been long awaited saw the light of day. As is the norm these days, I first saw this on Twitter, and immediately re-tweeted it. So what is all the hullabaloo about?
CC0 is here!!! What is CC0?
CC0 (read “CC Zeroâ€) is a universal waiver that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and database rights they may have in a work, thereby placing it as nearly as possible into the public domain. CC0 is not a license, but a legal tool that improves on the “dedication†function of our existing, U.S.-centric public domain dedication and certification. CC0 is universal in form and may be used throughout the world for any kind of content without adaptation to account for laws in different jurisdictions. And like our licenses, CC0 has the benefit of being expressed in three ways – legal code, a human readable deed, and machine-readable code that allows works distributed under CC0 to be easily found. Read our FAQs to learn more.
It’s an important addition to the Creative Commons family. It is not a license as stated, but adds a robust public domain dedication equivalent, which in this day of open data is an important consideration. You can now choose to make some data sets CC licensed, or put them under the CC0 umbrella. The announcement was made sweeter by the fact that among the first two data sets with the CC0 waiver were the Proteome Commons Tranche and George Church’s Personal Genome Project
Let’s hope CC0 and the efforts of people like John Wilbanks, who has really been at the forefront of pushing data into the public domain, have legs. This is important, perhaps more so than we realize.
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Hey Deepak,
What about the Genome Commons? Steven Brenner is speaking about this at Advances Towards Personalized Medicine http://lifescience.planetconnect.com/program/pm.... I'm very hopeful for open source science!
Also, at BIL:PIL on Friday in San Diego, I heard about Open Science Summit 2010 from Joseph Jackson. No website yet.
Cheers, Rita
Hey Deepak,
What about the Genome Commons? Steven Brenner is speaking about this at Advances Towards Personalized Medicine http://lifescience.planetconnect.com/program/pm.... I'm very hopeful for open source science!
Also, at BIL:PIL on Friday in San Diego, I heard about Open Science Summit 2010 from Joseph Jackson. No website yet.
Cheers, Rita
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