Hello Nadja,
You're right... page 10 of
http://www.iso.org/iso/copyright_information_brochure.pdf [1] states
ISO and IEC and their respective members are offering many different
options to companies and standards users when they need to legally make
more extensive use of the content of standards.
Extracting parts of a
standard for inclusion in the company's internal documentation, user's
guide or manuals - ISO and IEC encourage the use and adoption of their
standards in company documentation. Depending on the scale of the
extract, permission can be granted on a case-by-case basis.
Including
parts of a standard in books or software applications - Citing standards
or including extracts is encouraged as long as acknowledgements and any
necessary royalty arrangements are concluded.
To find out how to
obtain any additional rights or if you have any questions relating to
copyright, PLEASE CONTACT ISO OR THE IEC, or their respective members at
the addresses indicated at the end of the brochure.
- john
On
12.06.2012 05:46, Nadja Kutz wrote:
jmcclure wrote: "And please
mention how the
wikidata community can be assured that the wikidata
team's designs themselves don't infringe someone else's patent or
copyright, a reassurance that would directly follow from MWF's purchase
of rights to use an ISO standard."
May be someone can phone these
people in Geneva and ask wether wikidata could at
least base its
ontology on the ISO Standard.
(eventually by purchasing this right)
phone number:
http://www.iso.org/iso/copyright.htm
in that way one
would eventually not use their
explicit texts and formats but could use
at least their structural outline ?
Allthough it would of course be
better if the
formats would be in accordance.
The ISO funds itself
with selling standards. May
be some rich sponsor could buy their RDF
classification and
make it openly accessible? Whats the ISO opinion on
that did someone check?
Commercial publishing and open access need
not be automatically exclusive
i.e. here one could eventually pay for
an open
access publication in order to prevent the ruin of the ISO.
by the way, whats MWF (mediawikifoundation?) and thanks to Fabian
Suchanek for the explanations at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata/331
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