[geo-discuss] IP/rights oriented changes in the Council common position

[Jo Walsh]

Rufus urges us strenously but with accuracy to become as strategic as
we can about getting a rejection amendment in during the second
reading process (something that Benjamin has already been stymied on,
refused because the MEP it went through not on the ENVI committee :/).

To this end, Rufus suggested it would make a lot of sense to collect
the narrative about how the first reading amendments and the common
position move increasingly in the direction of restricting public access
to data and restricting reuse of data due to "intellectual property
rights" over data collected by NMAs and other agencies.

http://publicgeodata.org/Problems_With_Inspire is my latest attempt to
pick apart the Council common position text as held up against the
earlier drafts. It is actually a lot scarier than i had thought; there
are so many new get-out clauses, that there is really no right to data
access meaningfully contained in the Directive now going through
second reading at all.

Patches welcome, and my annotations are pretty braindumpy, but i
thought this was maybe worth sharing with the list now.


jo