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CC’s Public Domain Mark versus the Open Access Data Mark

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In an earlier post I mentioned that it’s not immediately clear how the new PD Mark relates to the proposed Open Access Data Mark in the Science Commons protocol. Creative Commons recently announced the new Public Domain Mark,which allowing users to label work in the public domain. The Science Commons protocol covers the CC/Science Commons position on rights around data for science, which amounts to a requirement that it all be placed in the public domain

I now have some more clarification to my query via the CC-Community list and John Wilbanks:

The PDM is unrelated to the OA data mark mooted in the Science Commons Protocol.

When we released CC0, that reflected the first part of a two-part strategy for tools related to the public domain at CC. Part one is the legal tool. Part two is the technical tool to mark things that are explicitly in the public domain. That’s the PDM. It’s not a legal tool, and it’s not restricted to data, though it can obviously be applied to data (and we expect it will be).

In terms of the open access data mark mentioned in the protocol, this is still something we are looking at CC as we continue the integrate the Science Commons work more and more deeply into the CC core, but that integration itself is priority #1 right now and keeping us more than a little busy.

So it remains to be seen how CC will deal with the proposed Open Access Data Mark, which would cover licenses such as the PDDL and of course CCO.

Particularly a badge for protocol compliant licenses would be helpful, as the licenses themselves wouldn’t necessarily be in the public domain. That way an outside body (CC/Science Commons) could validate legal tools as being public domain compliant, hugely helpful to those making the decision to tag work with the PD Mark.

In the meantime however, work actually in the public domain, including work related to science and dedicated using a tool, can be tagged using CC’s new PD Mark, which in itself is a huge step forward.


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