With the rise of API and data collection, ownership issues are arising. Who owns the data, who can access it? That's what this conversation covers!

1. W H O O W N S T H E A P I G O L D M I N E ?

2. R E L A X , I A M N O T A L A W Y E R
Gregory Menvielle
@pyramedium — @smartnotify
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3. W H Y O W N E R S H I P M AT T E R S

7. Y O U O W N T H E D ATA

8. E V E RY O N E E L S E O W N S I T T O O

10. D ATA B A S E R I G H T
• EU-centric law
• Collection of individual Data (real-time?)
• Substantial Investment in Obtaining, Presenting, and Verifying
• Substantial connection with an EU state (= Get out of jail)

12. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that
content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

13. When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to
or through our Services, you give XXXXXX (and those we
work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store,
reproduce, modify, create derivative works…

14. …communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display
and distribute such content…

15. This license continues even if you stop using our Services

16. W. T. F ?

17. 5 T I P S F O R A P I - O W N E R S
1. Decide who you are (Free is expensive)
2. Assume “normal” and “T.O.S” theft
3. Talk to your customers
4. Keep up with TOS
5. Have a back-up plan + Redundancies.

18. Our Customers Rely on Us
It’s about our Brand

19. Customers really Own the data.

20. G R E G O RY @ S M A R T N O T I F Y. U S
W W W. S M A R T N O T I F Y. U S / A P I