Posted by
Heather Morrison on
Sep 23, 2008; 6:12pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Show-your-support-for-open-gov-data-at-ibelieveinopen-ca-tp1231p1248.html
Re: scraping and infringing and telling everyone - please note that
OA advocates in the U.S. are battling a concerted effort by the anti-
OA publishing lobby to basically change U.S. copyright law to prevent
public access mandates to federally funded research. The Conyers
bill is nuts, but could easily get slipped into another bill and passed.
This is not a great time to be public about infringing; this would
help the opposition.
Not that I'm against this approach altogether, just not the best timing.
best,
Heather Morrison
On 23-Sep-08, at 10:52 AM, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> Daniel Haran wrote:
>> Next up: EDIDs. About that, does anyone have any current postal codes
>> for which there is more than one EDID?
>
> I posted sample postal codes of that type as comments to
>
>
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1607>
> They are quite useful for testing any lookup tool, given you need
> to handle getting a results of from 0 EDID's (IE: invalid postal
> code, or old database) up to 6.
>
> The two that return 2 postal codes that return 6 are both in the
> comments.
>
>
> Please: If you are scraping and infringing, don't do it silently as
> that can only harm us in the long term. Do it a publicly as you
> can as a form of civil disobedience and tell your candidates as
> well as the party leaders and past ministers/critics that you are
> doing it, and why you believe this database must be legally liberated!
>
> --
> Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <
http://www.flora.ca/>
> Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
> rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
>
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/>
> "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
> manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
> portable media player from my cold dead hands!"
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