Fwd: Re: [CCi] PSI not protected by copyright & use of US fed gov works outside US -- examples wanted

[olicharb]

Dear Civic Access floks,

I'd like to point out an interesting compilation of emails sent from around
the world by Creative Commons Project Leaders about access to Public Sector
Information:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Public_Sector_Information
Of course, this is a rough snapshot of the world, sent by really busy but
passionate folks who care about this important topic, so please excuse
missing topics.

Special thanks to Michelle Thorne for compiling these!

Kind regards,
Olivier Charbonneau
Associate Librarian, Concordia University
Project Leader - Montréal, Creative Commons Canada
www.culturelibre.ca


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [CCi] PSI not protected by copyright & use of US fed gov works
outside US -- examples wanted
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:45:05 +0200
From: Michelle Thorne <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]

Dear all,

Thanks for the additional feedback! A chart summarizing your responses is
now on the main wiki:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Public_Sector_Information

Please of course feel free to edit or submit new information, or just let
me
know, and I can help make changes.

Take care,

Michelle

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Michelle Thorne <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Thank you for the great feedback. As Mike mentioned, the plan now is to
> finalize a summary of your responses and post it online for future
reference
> and research. Diane has compiled the attached table, making sure to
> anonymize answers and remove personal identifiers. Before publishing the
> information, however, we would like to confirm with you that it is okay
to
> do so.
>
> We'll hold off posting for the next few days to allow for anyone to
notify

> us of revisions or their desire to be omitted. If you're content with the
> document, please don't feel obligated to reply! :-)
>
> Then next week I'll send a link to the published wiki page.
>
> Take care,
>
> Michelle
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Mike Linksvayer

<[hidden email]>wrote:

>
>> Thanks all for the incredibly useful responses, especially on (2)
>> below. Diane and Michelle are distilling a summary to be posted on the
>> wiki to further additional research. Michelle will post the address
>> when it is up.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Mike Linksvayer<[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear project leads,
>> >
>> > Joi Ito and Diane Peters recently had meetings with a number of "open
>> > government" people in the US. It turns out from these conversations
>> > that it would be very helpful to have some concrete examples of the
>> > public domain status of US government works being used outside the US
>> > and of cases outside the US where public sector information is not
>> > protected by copyright, even if those cases might be very narrow.
>> > Spelled out in a little more detail and as questions:
>> >
>> > (1) Do you know of any projects in your jurisdiction (or anywhere
>> > outside the US) that are republishing or otherwise reusing US federal
>> > government works? One such work that seems to be reused a fair amount
>> > is the CIA World Factbook, but specific reuse cases would be very
>> > helpful.
>> >
>> > (2) Do you know of any cases for your jurisdiction (or again, anywhere
>> > outside the US) in which public sector information is not protected by
>> > copyright, at least within the jurisdiction of origin?  One example
>> > that I've heard of (obviously via CC NL) is a condition that
>> > Netherlands PSI is in the public domain if there is no copyright
>> > notice (but there usually is), which I see noted in
>> >
>>

http://www.ivir.nl/publications/eechoud/CC_PublicSectorInformation_report_v3.pdf

>> > (search for "reservation rule") -- and no doubt my understanding is
>> > oversimplified. In any case a few other examples would be really
>> > helpful.
>> >
>> > If any of you have such information at your fingertips, or good leads,
>> > it would be very much appreciated.  Feel free to reply on- of
>> > off-list.
>> >
>> > Also, a related reminder,
>> > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Government_use_of_CC_licenses is
>> > becoming more respectable.  Please add to that or let Michelle Thorne
>> > or me know when you discover new cases -- or better yet instigate
>> > them. :-)
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Mike
>> >
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>
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>
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>
>

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