[Advocacy Advisors] Questions on Economic Contribution of Public Domain and Open Licensing

Fri Nov 14 12:24:03 UTC 2014

Hello, everyone!

The people working on this from the Observatory have received all the
compiled answers from this list. The study will be done in-house, which
implies a smaller scale, but give us potentially more control over the
procedure.

They aim at coming up with a methodlogy/scope by end of the year and
sharing it with us.

Best,
Dimi

2014-10-23 16:52 GMT+02:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com>:

> Good news, everyone!
>
> The Communia Association [1] has just joined the Observatory with the goal
> of working on this study. Communia is a European network dedicated to the
> public domain (which includes free licensing by their definition). Members
> include Kennisland, Creative Commons and many universities and research
> institutions. Their manifesto has, among others, been signed by  WMFR,
> WMIT, WMAR, WMNL, WMCH, WMUK, WMCZ and many board members from other
> chapters.
>
> This year's plenary during which the study will be partly discussed is
> next week on Tuesday and Wednesday. I will keep you posted on the
> discussion.
>
> Cheers,
> Dimi
>
> [1]http://www.communia-project.eu/about
>
> 2014-09-29 18:37 GMT+02:00 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:01 AM, L.Gelauff <lgelauff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-09-27 1:39 GMT+02:00 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
>>>> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. They really want to know if infringements is a problem for us
>>>>>
>>>>> The official name of the Observatory being "EU Observatory on
>>>>> Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights", they seemed really keen on
>>>>> including infringements of PD&OL in the study. I said I could give them a
>>>>> few case studies or examples, but hadn't heard of any studies on this.
>>>>> Should we give in and let them do research on this, although it might take
>>>>> focus off the economic contribution part?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If it helps them act at all, I can't see how it hurts us to have them
>>>> think about it. It's not the most frustrating mis-framing to come out of
>>>> Brussels. :)
>>>>
>>>> I was pointed by an acquaintance at these studies that are specific to
>>>> the use of open source in the Android App Store (a space that is easy to
>>>> study):
>>>>
>>>> The press releases for the initial study and a follow-up are here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/187975/Research-Mobile-Apps-and-Open-Source-Compliance
>>>>
>>>> http://www.openlogic.com/news/bid/210112/OpenLogic-Code-Scan-Reveals-Increasing-Open-Source-License-Compliance-Among-Mobile-Apps
>>>>
>>>> I also wrote aaa 3-part blog series on the research, results, etc.
>>>> here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.openlogic.com/blog/bid/223525/Apps-App-Store-and-Open-Source-Part-1
>>>>
>>>> http://www.openlogic.com/blog/bid/226481/Apps-App-Stores-and-Open-Source-Part-2
>>>>
>>>> http://www.openlogic.com/blog/bid/230007/Apps-App-Stores-and-Open-Source-Part-3
>>>>
>>>> The headline number is that they found 71% non-compliance in the first
>>>> study; down to 38% of apps non-compliant in the followup (in 2012).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think key to this question is the 'problem' part. For Public Domain
>>> that is easy: no it is not. At all. For the free licenses, it would require
>>> more of an opinion survey than an economical approach. Something very
>>> interesting, but perhaps not the kind of study they are best at? It would
>>> (in my view) require mostly asking contributors if they are limiting their
>>> contributions because of infringements.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, exactly right. Perhaps to be constructive we suggest that there are
>> many different motivations for open contributors, so that any investigation
>> of infringement must be paired with an investigation of:
>>
>>    1. motives for contribution that are not impacted by infringement
>>    [there is tons of research in this area
>>    <http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2010&q=motivation+of+open+source+developers&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5>,
>>    some even by economists]
>>    2. overall trends in contribution [this shouldn't be too hard to get
>>    out of, say, github/sourceforge?]
>>
>> Luis
>>
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