therefore, Creative Commons.

thesis: sharing drives innovation, reuse, and social benefit.

goal: make sharing complicated things easy.

solution: voluntary, standard legal tools

technically implemented “user interface to copyright”

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ 178,469,009 pictures under CC, 3/25/11

Creative Commons and data

GSK: deposits 13,500 potential malaria cures into public domain.

genomic

clinical

expression

model

not just open data, but open workflow and annotations…

what can you do?

making data useful is hard enough. make the legal stuff as simple as you can.

think about the future use of your data – its annotation, preservation, and the details of its provenance.

think about the real end users – the patients.

making it useful starts with making it open.

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