CivicAccess

May 18, 2006; 8:55pm

due to the $1000 per mini-set price tag. 

Does anyone know how much revenue StatCan generates from its access licenses ?

I'm ready to bet that Access Copyright and Copiebec generate more profit from
the *interest* running on the unallocated reproduction licenses collected from
Canadian Universities, schools and gvmt :)

Maybe some of that money could go to "liberate" StatCan data and help finance
Opne Access initiatives... see:
http://www.fedcan.ca/english/advocacy/openaccess/

We should use the interest on these amounts (which sould not have been created
if the market were efficient) to fix the market's market failures(unallocated
repro fees means that we paied for content and the money has not found an
author). Besides, the idea is that if authors have an incentive to give works
away in the first place, we should use money left over to set this process up. 

Any thoughts ?
Olivier

Quoting Cory Horner [hidden email]:

There seems to be a little bit of confusion here... 2 different 
discussions regarding the Census happening simultaneously.

1) Making Census data more freely available
2) Census 2006 on-line submission form for Linux users

We're effectively beating a dead horse on the Linux issue... People 
complained, StatsCan initially denied their claims were relevant, but 
soon gave in.  Horray!  Threads about 1) seem to keep getting hijacked 
by 2)...  The petition proposed is related to 1)... not 2) !

The issue actually under discussion is getting the *results* from the 
2006 Census out to the public -- not the generic "the population of 
nunavut is x", but the raw anonymized data, with which an unknown wealth 
of knowledge exists but sits unused due to the $1000 per mini-set price 
tag. 

Glancing at the Statistics Act, it seems the StatsCan policy on cost 
recovery has no basis in the legislation.  I'd like to see us aim to get 
a new section (3f) added to the act, which would add a responsibility 
for StatsCan to disseminate all data freely.

Cory.

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