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

Tue Feb 28 10:31:52 UTC 2006

Jo Walsh wrote:
> 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.

That way we know exactly what it is bad about the directive and can 
clearly explain it to others including MEPs.

> 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.

This is *really* good -- great work Jo. I'll have a trawl through the 
texts today and see if there is more to add.

~rufus