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Automated Rights Clearance Using Semantic Web Technologies: The DALICC Framework

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The creation of derivative data works, e.g. for purposes such as content creation, service delivery or process automation, is often accompanied by legal uncertainty about usage rights and high costs in the clearance of licensing issues. DALICC stands for Data Licenses Clearance Center. It supports legal experts, innovation managers and application developers in the legally secure reutilization of third party data and software. DALICC is a Semantic Web enabled software framework which allows the attaching of licenses in a machine readable format to a specific asset and supports the clearance of rights by providing the user with information about equivalence, similarity and compatibility between licenses if used in combination in a derivative work. In essence, DALICC helps to determine which information can be shared with whom, to what extent and under which conditions, thus lowering the costs of rights clearance and stimulating the data economy.

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Notes

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    Similar trends and figures are reported for the Spanish data broker market by Granickas [13].

  2. 2.

    At the time of publication the DALICC service was in closed beta mode and not available to the public. A public version will be available at www.dalicc.net.

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    Similar results are reported by Jain et al. [19] especially with respect to the large variety of licenses in European data clouds.

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    See also http://oeg-upm.github.io/odrlapi/ & http://conditional.linkeddata.es/ldr/manageren (accessed January 4, 2016).

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    See also http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML-Implementation-Examples (accessed January 4, 2016).

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    The following 14 commonly used licenses have been semantically represented: CC-BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND, BSD (2 clause), BSD (3 clause), MIT, APACHE, GPLv3, GPLv2, AGPL and LGPL.

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    Answer Set Programming has sparked theoretical interest from the Semantic Web Community before [23] because of its relationships to the well-known SPARQL querying language.

  8. 8.

    Clingo is an ASP system to ground and solve logic programs. See also https://potassco.org/ (accessed December 12, 2017).

  9. 9.

    See also Versata, Trilogy Software, Inc. and Trilogy Development Group v. Ameriprise, Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. and American Enterprise Investment Services, Inc., Case No. D-1-GN-12-003588; 53rd Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas.

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DALICC was funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) under the program “ICT of the Future” between November 2016 – October 2018. More information is available at https://iktderzukunft.at/en/ and https://dalicc.net/.

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    Tassilo Pellegrini

  2. Semantic Web Company GmbH, Wien, Austria

    Victor Mireles

  3. Siemens AG Österreich, Wien, Austria

    Simon Steyskal

  4. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Oleksandra Panasiuk & Anna Fensel

  5. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Wien, Germany

    Sabrina Kirrane

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Pellegrini, T., Mireles, V., Steyskal, S., Panasiuk, O., Fensel, A., Kirrane, S. (2018). Automated Rights Clearance Using Semantic Web Technologies: The DALICC Framework. In: Hoppe, T., Humm, B., Reibold, A. (eds) Semantic Applications. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55433-3_14

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