I’m interested in how Community Maps and Directories are shared and meet confidentiality, copyright and intellectual property obligations.
Going for written consent results in only 10-20% of the community appearing on the map (unless you do exceptional coproduction), while the really useful stuff is unpublishable! Navigating data ownership vs coproduction and meeting database copyright regulations appears to be a challenge with all kinds of power implications.
I’d be grateful if you could suggest some thoughts, point me to something to read or suggest who I might talk to.
The world is a big place, and jurisdictions have their own rules ( some please will put you in jail) - could you for instance be more specific on what features and the extent of your Area of Interest?
Thanks for asking - I am grateful for your help. This is a personal exploration rather than a study affiliated to the University. I am writing this in the United Kingdom.
In my city, we have an Online Service Directory with 2091 entries, including many providers who are based outside the city and want to market their offer here. I am interested in churches. 44 appear on this Directory.
May I reproduce all the data about the 44 from this Directory in a new listing? If I use the Directory's format to publish my information but only present basic contact details, have I stolen their intellectual property associated with selecting fields and creating a Directory?
Another 198 churches are active in the city but do not appear on this Directory. May I adopt the Directory format and add the 198 to my listing?
I found some of the 198 on multiple national lists. Some of these national listings declare that their information may only be used to match individuals with churches. If the same information appears on several of these lists, does that count as being in the public domain, so may I add it to mine?
Some churches have given me a personal email as their point of contact. Can I just it to my list? If I ask permission and they don't reply, must I remove it from my list?
Do the rules change if the data is drawn from nonprofit or government funded listings, or if I try to sell my list rather than placing the information online as a free resource?
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