1. Geospatial Information: Copyright Issues Professor George Cho Professor of Geoinformatics and the Law University of Canberra george.cho@canberra.edu.au University of Silesia, Poland 11-12 May 2016

2. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Digital Rights Management (DRM) (1)  Digital assets – any resources, contents and services in a digital domain  Digital rights – privileges for creating, distributing, using and managing digital assets  DRM – a unified approach to specifying, interpreting, enforcing and managing digital rights

3. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland DRM (2)  DRM permits the smooth, secure and trusted movement of digital resources through persistent enforcement of the rights  Enables rights specification and granting, consistent interpretation of rights, persistent protection of e-content  Allows rights holder to specify and track all the things the viewer can do  Access, time, money, transfer  Allows users to trust source of content, content integrity, achieve broader access

4. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland DRM Business Models (3)  Fee for content – books, music, video  Advertising supported – DRM-enabled ads accompanying content  Closed-loop marketing – tracked content to acquire customers  Personalised document access & management – medical and financial  Enterprise documents – engineering drawings, financial reports, personnel records  Web services – syndication of services in munti- tier value chain

5. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Open Geospatial Data (1)  Glyn Moody Digital Code of Life “most scientists in this field [genomics] have been routinely making their data freely available since 1996 when the Bermuda Principles were drawn up”.  Charles Arthur & Michael Cross ‘Give us back our Crown jewels’ The Guardian 09/03/06 “Our taxes fund the collection of public data, yet we pay again to access it. Make the data freely available to stimulate innovation”.

6. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Open Geospatial Data (2)  Open letter to MEPs on the ENVI Committee – Open access to geodata policy INSPIRE Draft Directive on establishing a common framework for sharing geographic information in Europe 15/03/06  Tim Berners-Lee’s Oxford University speech challenged the British government to make OS mapping data available at no cost for use on the ‘Semantic Web’. 27/03/06