[CivicAccess-discuss] ask the Copyright Consultation for Crown Copyright reform

[Glen Newton]

I agree with Tracey: you are conflating copyright and licensing.

There is nothing stopping the government from licensing crown
copyright materials with some kind of creative commons for
documents/data and GPL/BSD/Apache/etc license for software.

I know because I have done it and so have others (including those that
Tracey have indicated).
[LuSql: software: Apache license, crown copyright; manual: CC license
and crown copyright
 http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cistilabswiki/index.php/LuSql
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/lusql/ ]

I agree that a clearer (and more free access supportive) default
policy would be helpful, however.

-glen


2009/9/10 Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>:
> I like the process you suggest but wonder if you might re-think
> crowncopyright.  It is a very old institution in Canada, one that will not
> disapear easily at it is part of the Formation of Canada.  Also, while crown
> copyright will probably not disapear, there are work arounds.  It is also
> perhaps not necessarily crown copyright that is the problem but perhaps it
> is the interpretation that is problematic.  For instance GeoConnections has
> created the following licenses -
> http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp, which still respects crown
> copyright yet is is pretty much simular to an open bsd.  This might be a
> very good license to wrap onto crown copyrighted data until which time
> if/when crown copyright disapears.
>
> Also there are no clear data dissemination & access policies at the federal
> government that direct data producing sectors in the public service nor is
> there an infrastructure in place to do so.  So it might be good to add that
> too!  Access and the means to disseminate in a way that is easy for the
> public to use.
>
> It is also important to discuss which data - Census? environment?
> Statistical? Geographic? Science? Research? and so on.
>
> Cheers
> t
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Jennifer Bell <jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> If you'd like to see changes to the way the federal government licenses
>> Public Sector Information, one way to voice your concern is to submit a
>> letter to the current Copyright Consultations using our form:
>>
>> http://visiblegovernment.ca/campaigns/crowncopyright/
>>
>> If you don't like the way the submission is written, you can always edit
>> it to say what you like.  The important thing is to say something.
>>
>> You can see from the consultation submissions listing that they are
>> tracking form letters, like this one here:
>> http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/00250.html
>>
>> Which is generated by this website:
>> http://www.ccer.ca/send-a-letter-to-ottawa-to-stop-the-canadian-dmca/
>>
>> So even without changes, your form letter will be accepted and counted.
>>
>> Jennifer Bell
>> http://visiblegovernment.ca
>>
>>
>>
>>
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