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The UK based Policy Exchange is hosting a debate titled: Free Our Data? Government Agencies and Copyright. The debate will take place on Tuesday 10 February 2009 in Central London commencing at 1700 hours London time (GMT). The announcement states:
“Many people will be unaware that certain government agencies are collecting data that would be useful to the public, but although the taxpayer pays for this service the statistics are protected by copyright and cannot be used without payment. Thus a local authority seeking to highlight the location of its public loos or recycling sites cannot simply feed the mapping information into Google Maps, or a local internet mapping site, because Ordnance Survey holds the licence for it. Is this fair? Should these agencies retain their copyright because the revenue allows them to perform a vital public service? Or is this public data that deserves to be free? Do the current copyright laws help or harm innovation?”
This debate will be held at Policy Exchange, in partnership with The Guardian. Our panel of expert speakers will include:
- Adam Afriyie MP - Shadow Minister for Innovation
- Ed Parsons - Geospatial Technologist, Google
- Charles Arthur - Editor of Guardian Technology”
The Guardian Newspaper Free Our Data campaign has also announced the event.
If you wish to attend then contact Policy Exchange – spaces are limited.
Venue: Ideas Space, Policy Exchange, Clutha House, 10 Storey’s Gate, SW1P 3AY
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