Comments on: Lessons from the Library: RPR on Notice http://www.affinityproperties.com/wordpress/2010/02/22/lessons-from-the-library-rpr-on-notice/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:52:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: BLarsonMpls http://www.affinityproperties.com/wordpress/2010/02/22/lessons-from-the-library-rpr-on-notice/comment-page-1/#comment-26 BLarsonMpls Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:28:21 +0000 http://www.affinityproperties.com/wordpress/?p=877#comment-26 Joe, One way to address these concerns is with a good license agreement. Even if you cannot copyright facts, you can restrict how the recipient uses them by means of a contract between the disclosing party and the receiving part. OCLC, like make organizations of this type, probably did not conceive of this issue at its inception. So, with RPR, if MLSs license data to RPR under a license agreement that makes the terms clear and limits the uses to which the data can be put, the MLSs (and their local brokers) essentially retain the control they seek, while permitting RPR to do its best to commercialize the data for mutual benefit. At least, that's the theory. There's plenty of issues yet to be addressed before that can come true. -Brian Joe,
One way to address these concerns is with a good license agreement. Even if you cannot copyright facts, you can restrict how the recipient uses them by means of a contract between the disclosing party and the receiving part. OCLC, like make organizations of this type, probably did not conceive of this issue at its inception.

So, with RPR, if MLSs license data to RPR under a license agreement that makes the terms clear and limits the uses to which the data can be put, the MLSs (and their local brokers) essentially retain the control they seek, while permitting RPR to do its best to commercialize the data for mutual benefit.

At least, that’s the theory. There’s plenty of issues yet to be addressed before that can come true.
-Brian

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