Conclusions from the European Commission PSI consultation Timothy Vollmer, December 20th, 2013 Last month, Creative Commons and several other groups responded <https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/40741> to the European Commission's consultation <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/consultation-guidelines-recommen...> on licensing, datasets and charging for the re-use of public sector information (PSI). See our response here <http://http//wiki.creativecommons.org/images/c/cf/Ec_psi_consultation_cc_201...>. There were 355 submissions to the questionnaire (spreadsheet download) <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?action=...>, apparently from all EU Member States except Cyprus. The Commission hosted a hearing (PDF of meeting minutes) <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?action=...> on the issue on 25 November. This week the Commission released a final summary report (PDF) <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?action=...> 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. [...] Continua qui: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41397