Broken/NS102:Open or Free Statement: Difference between revisions

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This is a property of type String.

Certain sites call themselves open/free/libre/etc. or state that some of their resources are such.

The allowed values for this property are:

(1) We have marked these sites as having an "open or free statement". These include government web sites that declare most of their material is in the public domain.

(2) "no" is marked in all instances where we could not find a statement.

(3) "fair use" is reserved for those governmental sites that do not declare their material to be in the public domain, but stress open use for non-commercial or educational purposes. Since fair use is being made explicit in these cases, we have marked it as such.

Disclaimer

The "open or free statement" does not necessarily correspond with the actual openness of the resource. The question we are asking here is: does the site (or organization) identify itself as an open resource? There are varying degrees of openness, and many organizations regard themselves as "open" even if their material is fully restricted under copyright law. In the same vein, some organizations encourage more than fair use of their material under licenses such as the Creative Commons Attribution license---which allows you to copy, distribute, transmit and even adapt the work, as long as you give proper attribution to the author.

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 This is a property of type [[Has type::String|String]].
-Certain sites call themselves open/free/libre/etc. or state that some of their resources are such.  We have marked these sites as having an "open or free statement"---so they are marked "yes".
+Certain sites call themselves open/free/libre/etc. or state that some of their resources are such.
 The allowed values for this property are:
-* [[Allows value:=yes]]
+* [[Allows value:=yes]] (1)
-* [[Allows value:=fair use]]
+* [[Allows value:=no]] (2)
-* [[Allows value:=no]]
+* [[Allows value:=fair use]] (3)
+(1) We have marked these sites as having an "open or free statement". These include government web sites that declare most of their material is in the [[public domain]].
-If we could not find such a statement, then we marked the site with a "no".
+(2) "no" is marked in all instances where we could not find a statement.
-In some instances regarding governmental sites, a government license is stressed in the "terms of use". The site's resources are also stated to be open or free for non-commercial or educational uses. In these cases, fair use* is being made explicit. Accordingly we have marked it so.
+(3) "fair use" is reserved for those governmental sites that do not declare their material to be in the public domain, but stress open use for non-commercial or educational purposes.  Since [[fair use]] is being made explicit in these cases, we have marked it as such.
-The "open or free statement" does not always correspond with actual openness of the resource. Here, we are more concerned with whether the site identifies itself as an open resource, regardless of whether the site's resource are ''actually'' open.
+== Disclaimer ==
-**Fair use is a part of copyright law. Even for "all rights reserved" copyright, fair use is permitted. For details, see the United States' definition of fair use on their copyright page: [http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html]
+The "open or free statement" does not necessarily correspond with the actual openness of the resource. The question we are asking here is: does the site (or organization) identify itself as an open resource? There are varying degrees of openness, and many organizations regard themselves as "open" even if their material is fully restricted under copyright law. In the same vein, some organizations encourage more than [[fair use]] of their material under licenses such as the Creative Commons Attribution license---which allows you to copy, distribute, transmit and even adapt the work, as long as you give proper attribution to the author.