SDI Convergence - Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association

use happens when the final user will reuse licenced resources to create a direct or indirect
gain, and this category includes ‘pure commercial use’ and ‘professional services’.
The first one means a direct financial gain arising from reuse of resources: for example
a company that acquires a data set to resell them. ‘Professional services’ refer to professional
use, in which there is an indirect gain, because professionals reuse resources
during their activities and receive fees: for instance, an architect using licenced information
to create a master plan.
Non-commercial use refers to reuse activities not producing direct financial gain. This
category includes internal use, teaching use, spreading use, research use and institutional
use. The definition of ‘internal use’ refers to a reuse of licenced resources for internal
use only, in which the customer can manipulate geo information for internal archives
but cannot disseminate the resultant products in the public domain. ‘Teaching
use’ includes the reuse for educational activities and ‘spreading use’ refers to spreading
activities such as meetings, exhibitions or free publications. Reuse activities related
to research refer to ‘research use’ and ‘institutional use’ including reuse in public authorities
activities and projects.
For each use category (commercial and non-commercial), including sub-categories,
three levels of reuse exist:
1. non modified product: end user displays and makes query on licenced product without
modifying it;
2. value added product: the product is developed by the end user and contains information
from the licenced product in addiction to other new information;
3. new product: the product is developed by the end user and does not contain information
from the licenced product, but only other new information.
The third column describes ‘access conditions’ such as user types or use rights related
to display and download. User types category includes ‘free access’, when end user
accesses and obtains resources without personal identification, and ‘registered access’,
in the case of personal identification of the end user. Registered access contains
the following sub-categories: professional, public administration bodies, heritage and
educational area, law enforcement agencies. Other kinds of access conditions refer to
on-screen display, download, format and distribution to third parties, which content provider
decides to permit or not to final user. Concerning resource price content providers
may opt for:
(a) a cash fee: data owner may establish a cash fee for each allowable information
item;
(b) a service fee: data owner may establish a service fee instead of a cash fee. Data
owner asks the final user to return updated information item;
(c) a mixed fee: data owner may establish both a cash and a service fee.
Concerning constraints, the access conditions sub-category defines user obligations in
terms of publications and diffusion via web. In this case, users reusing licenced information
for publications or diffusion via web must respect strict obligations:
(a) copyright labels: data users must use a copyright label referring to the licensor’s
copyright;
(b) communications concerning publication conditions: data users must inform information
providers about information publication methods, specifying the amount and the
typology (publications, domain addresses or applications);
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