Today the COMMUNIA International Association presents its second policy paper<http://www.communia-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/120122communi...>. The paper is a reaction to the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Directive on re-use of public sector information<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/pdfs/opendata2012/revision_of_PSI_Directive/proposal_directive_EN.pdf>(2003/98/EC). COMMUNIA is supportive of the Commission’s suggested changes to the PSI Directive — most notably the decision to include cultural heritage institutions into the scope of the amended Directive. Access to and re-use of public sector information (PSI) has been one of the issues that has featured prominently in the work of COMMUNIA. The EC proposal to amend the PSI Directive is aligned with one of COMMUNIA’s January 2011 policy recommendations<http://www.communia-association.org/recommendations-2/> (#13), which states, “The PSI Directive needs to be broadened, by increasing its scope to include publicly funded memory organisations – such as museums or galleries – and strengthened by mandating that Public Sector Information will be made freely available for all to use and re-use without restriction.” [...] Continua qui: http://www.communia-association.org/2012/01/22/communia-policy-paper-on-prop...