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

Mon Feb 7 09:34:03 UTC 2011

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Josh Tauberer <tauberer at govtrack.us> wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 10:02 AM, Angelopoulos, C.J. wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Apologies if this has been discussed before, but do you have anything
> readable/citable on that? Thanks!

+1!

I'd be really interested to see if anyone's done any research on this.
If not, I wonder whether we could start a mini-project to start to map
this out in different countries, under the auspices of this WG?

All the best,

Jonathan

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> On 02/02/2011 10:02 AM, Angelopoulos, C.J. wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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>>
>>
>>
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