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> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Daniel Haran wrote:
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>> What's the status of lobbying on this issue? It is high time we took
>> it if they haven't answered our calls. I would scrape it if someone
>> were to use it.
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> Scraping doesn't solve the underlying crown copyright problem -- the
> resulting data would still be infringing, if you copied the SQL directly or
> scraped it. I'm not making any specific recommendation here, but I would
> tend to doubt the government would actually sue anyone over this as it would
> look pretty bad.
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> I've had a sample letter on the digitalcopyright.ca site for a while now,
> but this isn't something any politician has taken interest in yet. The
> bureaucrats point at existing policy and say it is out of their hands, that
> they can't release it without the policy changing. If more people want to
> ask, that can't hurt of course.
>
>> Daniel.
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>> PS: Is anyone else annoyed we're *still* talking about this file?
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> Annoyed is one word. I'm a bit embarassed that this is one of those areas
> where the USA was founded hundreds of years ago more foreward leaning in
> this area that we are today. This file is just one specifically embarassing
> example of crown copyright.
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