Canadian federal court of appeal rules: no copyright in data

[Heather Morrison-2]

Blogpost by Teresas Scassa that may be of interest:
http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=124:federal-court-of-appeal-reminds-government-there-is-no-copyright-in-data

This has implications for open data licenses in Canada. It makes no sense to have a license to waive the copyright in data when no such copyright exists.

best,

Heather G. Morrison
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

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[James McKinney-2]

I think it makes sense for a government to make clear that it claims no copyright in the data it distributes.

What doesn't make sense is when a government *claims* copyright in data, which it cannot claim. Those are the problematic licenses.

James

On 2013-03-22, at 4:46 PM, Heather Morrison wrote:

> Blogpost by Teresas Scassa that may be of interest:
> http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=124:federal-court-of-appeal-reminds-government-there-is-no-copyright-in-data
>
> This has implications for open data licenses in Canada. It makes no sense to have a license to waive the copyright in data when no such copyright exists.
>
> best,
>
> Heather G. Morrison
> The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
>
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[Glen Newton]

So it appears all data licenses (in Canada) are actually Open Data
licenses, as the original licenses cannot be enforced...[with the
exception of compilations]

-glen

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:54 PM, James McKinney <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I think it makes sense for a government to make clear that it claims no copyright in the data it distributes.
>
> What doesn't make sense is when a government *claims* copyright in data, which it cannot claim. Those are the problematic licenses.
>
> James
>
> On 2013-03-22, at 4:46 PM, Heather Morrison wrote:
>
>> Blogpost by Teresas Scassa that may be of interest:
>> http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=124:federal-court-of-appeal-reminds-government-there-is-no-copyright-in-data
>>
>> This has implications for open data licenses in Canada. It makes no sense to have a license to waive the copyright in data when no such copyright exists.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Heather G. Morrison
>> The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
>> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
>>
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