[open-government] National legal barriers to open data in Europe

Tue Jan 4 20:23:55 UTC 2011

Dear Tim,

1. The topic addresses a fundamental debate on the
legal methodology of the PSI Directive. Two approaches.

2. however, the EU commission did never understand the
inherent question and did also include a provision in that regard.

kind regards,

Gerhard

On 04.01.2011 20:18, Tim McNamara wrote:
> 2011/1/4 Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com 
> <mailto:countculture at gmail.com>>
>
>     I've been having an email conversation with Stefan de Konink, who
>     runs openKvK.nl, a project to provide an API for the Netherlands
>     companies register, with the intention that we could incorporate
>     the data into OpenCorporates, and so at one stroke add
>     OpenCorporates URLs and reconciliation to all the Dutch companies.
>
>     Anyway, long story short, a number of issues have arisen which I
>     thought might be worth raising in a wider arena. The main one is
>     discovering and understanding which other national laws there are
>     preventing open data in Europe. In this case, OpenKvk has a
>     licence which Stefan describes thus: Since there is also an
>     anti-spam law in place in The Netherlands. The license is 'Thy
>     shall not spam using this database' and 'Thy shall not abuse the
>     system in such way others cannot use it anymore'.
>
>
> Actually, I see these as compatible restrictions. Just have those two 
> restrictions as part of a general "You may use this service as long as 
> you are not contravening any law" restriction as a term of use of a 
> data retrieval service. The terms of use of the retrieval service 
> (e.g. the API) are independent to the licencing terms of the data itself.
>
>
> Tim
> @timClicks
>
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