http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Topic: Licenses and IP Agreements for DH Projects en-US Sat, 19 Mar 2016 12:48:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1976 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:04:46 +0000 Kevin Hawkins 1976@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>You mean another wizard-like interface for interactively choosing the appropriate license? How about <a href="http://creativecommons.org/choose/" rel="nofollow">http://creativecommons.org/choose/</a> ? </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1975 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:56:45 +0000 David Michelson 1975@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>A colleague passed along this source for forms: <a href="http://selector.harmonyagreements.org/" rel="nofollow">http://selector.harmonyagreements.org/</a></p> <p>Is anyone aware of a similar set of agreements for CC? </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1973 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:10:25 +0000 David Michelson 1973@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @kevin.s.hawkins's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1972">post</a>:</em></p> <p>Thanks this is what I was looking for. I am curious now about what they mention about forming an s-corporation, etc. I'll start a new question for that. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1972 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:51:55 +0000 Kevin Hawkins 1972@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @David Michelson's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1970">post</a>:</em></p> <p>While not designed for contributors to DH projects in particular, you might look at the agreements in "section B" of <a href="http://wiki.publishing.umich.edu/Publishing_Agreements" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.publishing.umich.edu/Publishing_Agreements</a> . In these agreements, the author of a work grants rights to a party responsible for the journal or book series. These rights include allowing their work to be published under a CC license. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1971 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:27:17 +0000 David Michelson 1971@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @jlmcdonald@gmail.com's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1968">post</a>:</em></p> <p>Thanks, that was also my understanding, but it is interesting that the TEI consortium is using both at the link above. Of course they are doing so for ODD files and other objects that are part code/part data. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1970 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:26:04 +0000 David Michelson 1970@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @Stéfan Sinclair's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1956">post</a>:</em></p> <p>I'd like to bump my question: Would anyone want to share agreement form that they use for contributors? I am imagining a document in which a contributor could license or otherwise give the rights to the data they are contributing to a project (yes, they could also put the CC license directly into the data, but it would also be useful to have some sort of user agreement that users could sign acknowledging the use of the open licenses). </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1968 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:35:06 +0000 jlmcdonald@gmail.com 1968@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>CC licenses are general purpose content licenses, and shouldn't be used for software licensing (in fact, Creative Commons themselves are the ones that state as much: <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software)" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software)</a>. Likewise, it wouldn't make sense to use a license designed for software for your non-code content. Given this, I've generally used a CC-BY license for the content and an MIT license for the code (though some recent projects I've been involved with have chosen to go with the Mozilla license for the code rather than MIT). </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1967 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:23:12 +0000 David Michelson 1967@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Any more answers on this question?</p> <p>Specifically, I am curious about the following. If I were to follow the TEI consortium practice, can I license both content and code simultaneousely under CC-BY and BSD-2 or -3 Clause? (Can I license content that is just plain text under BSD-2 or 3?).</p> <p>Secondly, I am curious could anyone share contributor forms that you ask contributors to sign authorizing these licenses? </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1960 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:45:20 +0000 Kevin Hawkins 1960@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>The TEI Technical Council had a long discussion on licensing of the TEI Guidelines ODD files and software maintained by the TEI Consortium. See threads containing "licen{cs}e" (just one thread) and "licensing" (many) in <a href="http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2011/thread.html">the list of threads from the 2011 Technical Council list archives</a>.</p> <p>The conclusion was to <a href="http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Council-licensing">license everything under two licenses</a>. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1957 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:47:08 +0000 Stéfan Sinclair 1957@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Here's a link to the license that was used for Taporware (I worked on the TAPoR Portal but not Taporware). I believe this is custom language that was developed and approved by the IP office at McMaster: <a href="http://taporware.ualberta.ca/~taporware/download/taporcopyright.txt" rel="nofollow">http://taporware.ualberta.ca/~taporware/download/taporcopyright.txt</a> </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/licenses-and-ip-agreements-for-dh-projects#post-1956 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:31:03 +0000 Stéfan Sinclair 1956@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I'm wondering if any of you folks would be willing to share custom (software or content) licenses as well as IP agreements for your DH projects. I'm especially interested in what licenses people are using for code and why, as well as IP agreements that are used with research assistants, staff and other researchers. I'll post a few examples that we've used in a separate message below, but I'd be grateful to hear what others have been doing and why (as applicable). </p>