[od-discuss] Are EC's legal notices for the new EC data portal OpenDefinition compliant?

Thu Jan 10 17:30:41 UTC 2013

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As some of you may have seen, the EC recently released a new data portal
> for datasets generated and collected by European bodies [1].
>

The open data portal relies on the reuse decision for Commission documents
as its "license." That decision [1] includes a provision in Article 6 that
requires:

(b) the obligation not to distort the original meaning or message of the
> documents;

This seems similar to the clause in the UK OGL [2] and other licenses that
says users must "ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent the
Information or its source;"

This is probably not in line with the Open Definition. Is this right?

   -

[1]
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:330:0039:0042:EN:PDF
[2] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/

tvol

>
> In addition to CC-BY there are two other legal noticed in effect, the
> general Europa Legal Notice [2] and the Eurostat Copyright Policy [3].
>
> I'd love to hear whether people think these are compliant with
> OpenDefinition. I assume the first definitely is (it seems to be a simple
> attribution style license). But some people have raised questions about the
> Eurostat Copyright notice.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data/data/
> [2] http://ec.europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm
> [3]
> http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/about_eurostat/policies/copyright_licence_policy
>
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