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

Mon Feb 7 09:50:15 UTC 2011

Hi all,

On 07.02.2011, at 10:34, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> 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.

I can add the bit for German legislation as published recently in
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/topic_reports/topic_report_no_21_state_of_play_psi_in_germany_by_daniel_dietrich

But...

> 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?

Yes, I think it makes a hole lot of sense to bundle this kind of information about law and regulations that affect PSI and its re-use in different countries. I wonder if something like this already exists somewhere? If not, we could start here: http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/government/law

Regards
Daniel

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> 
> All the best,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
>> - Josh Tauberer
>> - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us
>> 
>> http://razor.occams.info | www.govtrack.us | civicimpulse.com
>> 
>> "Members of both sides are reminded not to use guests of the
>> House as props."
>> 
>> 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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