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At 6:31 PM -0400 5/9/07, Tim Spalding wrote: >I'd love to see LT's member-driven data mashed up with more >traditional work-set analysis. At this point everyone is free to try >that on their own, but we'll move to a more traditional copyleft >license, so improvements like that have to be shared. It should be noted since collections of facts are not currently copyrightable in the US, traditional copyleft, which uses copyright law as its legal underpinning, does not work either. It would be interesting to see what sort of legal foundation for copyleft can be invented for collections of data- I can think of some important applications in our community. -- Eric Hellman, Director OCLC Openly Informatics Division [log in to unmask] 2 Broad St., Suite 208 tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 http://openly.oclc.org/1cate/ 1 Click Access To Everything