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Data Art: what are the limits and opportunities in data licensing for artists?

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A session on using open data in artistic works of various sources, led by Leela Collins.

Traditionally, we have infographics, where we take data and visualise it so people can understand it. And then there’s conceptual art, which gains some of its meaning from the original data source. Does that create a new work, or does it owe something to the data producer?

Data is becoming a tool, in the same way that brushes are.

And then there’s protest art, where the whole of the data is used to create the art. But if the data is licensed non-commercially, can the artist make money from the work? A full open data licence is free for reuse. However, a non-commercial licence on some data is somewhat ambiguous – is it just restricting resale of the data itself, or does it prevent it being used for anything commercial?

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Drawnalism at Open Data Camp 3

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The team from Drawnalism will be doing livecapture of many of the sessions through the two days of Open Data Camp.

In essence, we will be taking notes of what’s discussed both in text and visually, and publishing them in short order for your reference. In many sessions, we’ll have two people doing livecapture – an artist, working on large sheets of paper, and a liveblogger, who will be typing furiously on a laptop throughout the session.

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