[CivicAccess-discuss] postal code --> riding

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Daniel Haran wrote:

> What's the status of lobbying on this issue? It is high time we took
> it if they haven't answered our calls. I would scrape it if someone
> were to use it.

    Scraping doesn't solve the underlying crown copyright problem -- the 
resulting data would still be infringing, if you copied the SQL directly 
or scraped it.  I'm not making any specific recommendation here, but I 
would tend to doubt the government would actually sue anyone over this as 
it would look pretty bad.

  I've had a sample letter on the digitalcopyright.ca site for a while now, 
but this isn't something any politician has taken interest in yet. 
The bureaucrats point at existing policy and say it is out of their hands, 
that they can't release it without the policy changing.  If more people 
want to ask, that can't hurt of course.

> Daniel.
>
> PS: Is anyone else annoyed we're *still* talking about this file?

   Annoyed is one word.  I'm a bit embarassed that this is one of those 
areas where the USA was founded hundreds of years ago more foreward 
leaning in this area that we are today.  This file is just one 
specifically embarassing example of crown copyright.







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