[open-government] Ten Open Data Guidelines launched in Tbilisi

Wed Feb 2 15:02:39 UTC 2011

Hi Jonathan,

Well, actually quite a few EU countries (if not most of those 18 we have examined up till now) have a comparable provision excluding some sort of government material (most particularly laws) from copyright protection - the UK of course being the most prominent exception to this rule.

Best,

Christina

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From: okfn.jonathan.gray at googlemail.com [mailto:okfn.jonathan.gray at googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gray
Sent: dinsdag 1 februari 2011 15:49
To: Victoria Anderica
Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org; derek at transparency.ge; Angelopoulos, C.J.; Katleen Janssen
Subject: Re: [open-government] Ten Open Data Guidelines launched in Tbilisi

Fantastic. I have one small comment related to point 7., which says data should be 'license free'. I would focus this point on making sure that users are free to use data in any way they please, rather than on the legal mechanism used to achieve this. E.g. at the moment it might not be clear whether or not things like Creative Commons CC0 or the PDDL, would be permissible or not. Also its not clear to me that, a priori, one wants to *always* deal with rights in government information via legal reform (copyright exemptions, PSI legislation
etc) rather than at an administrative level (e.g. via licensing policies and practices). By excluding licenses as a legitimate means of opening up government information, you exclude 'bottom up'
initiatives from public bodies to open material up using licenses or other legal tools (e.g. the UK's Open Government License). Some clarification here would be great!

In general I'd be really interested to hear of other legal systems which have copyright exemptions in public information, like §105 in the US Copyright Act [1], to get a sense of how widespread this is outside the US. I know that there are *some* clauses in other copyright legislation, but don't know in how many countries.

Christina, Katleen: do you know anything about this? Or do you know anyone who would know? Or any papers/research on this topic?

All the best,

Jonathan

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105

2011/2/1 Victoria Anderica <victoria at access-info.org>:
> Dear all,
>
> Access Info Europe welcome the publication this week of the Ten Open 
> Data Guidelines drafted by TI Georgia, in consultation with Access Info Europe.
>
> These guidelines are designed as a guide to help agency heads, IT 
> managers, and web developers create open data websites. They call for data to be:
>
> 1. Complete
> 2. Primary
> 3. Timely
> 4. Accessible
> 5. Machine-readable
> 6. Non-proprietary
> 7. License-free
> 8. Reviewable
> 9. Discoverable
> 10. Permanent
>
> The guidelines provide details of how these are to be achieved. They 
> provide a useful structure which Access Info recommends as a model for 
> the elaboration of similar principles in other countries and at an 
> international level.
>
> Please do not hesitate to contact either Dereck Dohler, copied, or 
> myself for more information.
>
> All the best,
>
> Victoria
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