[open-science] Fwd: Open data and Panton Principles

[Finn Aarup Nielsen]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Chris Rusbridge wrote:

> [...] However, I do remember investigations into Crown Copyright etc, 
> well before the current openness regime, that suggested that only 
> Ordnance Survey made any significant (5 figures or higher) annual 
> returns on IP exploitation, [...]

I wonder if your UK Met Office hasn't some income from selling data?

If I understand a report correctly (http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/aar_08.pdf) I 
see that 'Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut' has an income on around 50 
million DDK (~7 million Euro) 'selling goods and services'. That is around 
20% of their total income. Processed data costs 0.75 DDK per parameter 
(0.1 Euro).


/Finn

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          Finn Aarup Nielsen, DTU Informatics, Denmark
  Lundbeck Foundation Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging
    http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~fn/      http://nru.dk/staff/fnielsen/
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