I'll be dammed! Think of all the cost recovery paper work cost in Canada! This is a pretty creative way to reduce costs and stimulate sharing. Go figure...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperwork_Reduction_Act
Under the PRA federal agencies may not:
“a) establish an exclusive,
restricted, or other distribution arrangement that interferes with
timely and equitable availability of public information to the
public;
b) restrict or regulate the use,
reslae, or redissemination of public information by the public;
c) charge fees or royalties for the
reslale or redissemination of public information; or
d) establish user fees for public
information that exceed the cost of dissemination.” (Van Loenen,
2006:112)
via:
Van Loenen, Bastiaan, 2006, Developing
Geographic Information Infrastructures: The Role of Information
Policies, Delft: Delft University Press.
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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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