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 Towards a Copyright Strategy  Search the patent, trade mark and design databases and the Internet to ensure ideas are new and to avoid infringing the rights of others.  Maintain secrecy and be first to market and protect.  Develop an infringement and detection policy.  Be sure about whether or not you actually own the IP you think you do.  Educate your staff as to their obligations and where necessary have key staff sign confidentiality agreements.  Consider ways you can use the IP system in your overall business strategy.  Make effective trade marks the core of your brand and image-building strategy.  Identify and value your IP assets and ensure they are itemised in your business plan.

3. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Global Developments  Copyright, Copywrong, Copyleft  GNU – General Public Licence (GPL)  Creative Commons Project  Creative Commons ‘Rights’ Notice  Digital Rights Management (DRM)  Open GeoSpatial Data

4. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Copyright, Copywrong, Copyleft  Free and open source software – FOSS Source code free for public use. Free in the sense of freedom to use for any purpose, to study how it works, adapt it to one’s own needs, to redistribute copies and to improve and share it with the community. Free does not mean price is zero since FOSS may be traded, eg. Linux Red Hat, Sendmail  GNU General Public Licence (GPL) (copyleft)  Creative Commons (CC) project  Creative Commons ‘rights’ notice

5. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland GNU GNU General Public License GPL Version 1.2, November 2002 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place – Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gph.html

6. Copyright © George Cho, May 2016 U Silesia, Katowice, Poland Creative Commons Project Offers a number of licenses designed to allow the broader use of copyright material. The licence allows the licensee to use copyright subject-matter on the basis of one or all of the following conditions:  attribution  non-commercial distribution  no derivative works (verbatim copies only),  share and share alike. http://www.creativecommons.org

7. Creative Commons ‘Rights’ Notice Copyright notice No derivative works permitted May copy but only if non-commercial Attribution permits others to copy, distribute etc Share alike, permits others to distribute derivative works under licence Public domain document