TY - GEN
T1 - Some Legal Concerns with the use of Crowd-sourced Geospatial Information
AU - CHO, George
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Volunteered geographic information (VGI), citizens as sensors, crowd-sourcing and ‘Wikipedia’ of maps have been used to describe activity facilitated by the Internet and the dynamic Web 2.0 environment to collect geographic information (GI). Legal concerns raised in the creation, assembly and dissemination of GI by produsers include: quality, ownership and liability. In detail, accuracy and authoritativeness of the crowd-sourced GI; the ownership and moral rights to the information, and contractual and tort liability are key concerns. A legal framework and governance structure may be necessary whereby technology, networked governance and provision of legal protections may be combined to mitigate geo-liability as a ‘chilling’ factor in VGI development.
AB - Volunteered geographic information (VGI), citizens as sensors, crowd-sourcing and ‘Wikipedia’ of maps have been used to describe activity facilitated by the Internet and the dynamic Web 2.0 environment to collect geographic information (GI). Legal concerns raised in the creation, assembly and dissemination of GI by produsers include: quality, ownership and liability. In detail, accuracy and authoritativeness of the crowd-sourced GI; the ownership and moral rights to the information, and contractual and tort liability are key concerns. A legal framework and governance structure may be necessary whereby technology, networked governance and provision of legal protections may be combined to mitigate geo-liability as a ‘chilling’ factor in VGI development.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906569376&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1755-1315/20/1/012040
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/20/1/012040
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781634399616
VL - 20
T3 - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
SP - 1
EP - 15
BT - 7th IGRSM International Remote Sensing GIS Conference
PB - IOP Publishing
CY - UK
T2 - 7th IGRSM International Conference and Exhibition on Remote Sensing and GIS, IGRSM 2014
Y2 - 21 April 2014 through 22 April 2014
ER -