Posted by
Russell McOrmond-2 on
Sep 23, 2008; 10:57pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Show-your-support-for-open-gov-data-at-ibelieveinopen-ca-tp1231p1265.html
Heather Morrison wrote:
> The folks who are fighting for fair copyright in Canada could have the
> same potential synergies, and the same issues here.
Abolishing crown copyright tends to be one of those "Fair Copyright"
issues, so we are talking about infringing a form of copyright that we
don't believe should even exist.
Abolishing Crown Copyright is at a level far beyond the CivicAccess
requests which is that government created data which Canadians have
already paid for (sometimes multiple times) should at least be made
freely available to Canadians.
What the CivicAccess folks are asking for is much easier than what
the OA folks are asking for, given with OA we are saying that the
results of publicly funded research done by third parties be made
available, while with CivicAccess we are saying the stuff which our
government created themselves should be available.
The public sector as a copyright holder is a very different situation
than any other sector being a copyright holder.
(Guess I didn't bow out of this interesting conversation ;-)
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Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <
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