[open-government] copyright

Mon Nov 1 23:31:29 UTC 2010

Interesting. Not so in Canada or the US (where it is almost the  
reverse of the UK, and the federal government does not hold copyright  
but State and municipal bodies do).

Toby

On 1 Nov 2010, at 19:53, Chris Taggart wrote:

> Crown copyright only applies to central not local govt in the UK.  
> That's one of the reason the Open Government Licence was created, as  
> the orginal data.gov.uk licence assumed Crown Copyright (and so  
> wasn't really suitable for local authorities).
> Chris

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