Last month, Creative Commons and several other groups responded to the European Commission’s consultation on licensing, datasets and charging for the re-use of public sector information (PSI). See our response here. There were 355 submissions to the questionnaire (spreadsheet download), apparently from all EU Member States except Cyprus. The Commission hosted a hearing (PDF of meeting minutes) on the issue on 25 November.
This week the Commission released a final
summary report (PDF) to the consultation. There were
several interesting data points from the report concerning
licensing. First, the questionnaire respondents preferred a
“light-weight approach, limited to a mere disclaimer or
consisting of allowing the reuse of data without any particular
restrictions…” (pg5). In our submission, we said that there
should be no conditions attached to the re-use of public sector
information, with the best case scenario being for public sector
information to be in the public domain, exempt from copyright
protection altogether by amending national copyright laws.
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