Comments on: “There’s no economic incentive to free data – until we produce one” http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/05/theres-no-economic-incentive-to-free-data-until-we-produce-one/ A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to non-personal data about the UK and its citizens Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:10:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Make IT Policy http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/05/theres-no-economic-incentive-to-free-data-until-we-produce-one/comment-page-1/#comment-567 Make IT Policy Fri, 12 May 2006 08:20:38 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=38#comment-567 <strong>Open Source Mapping - and open data generally...</strong> Interesting article in the Guardian yesterday about an attempt to map the Isle of Wight’s roads in one weekend for OpenStreetMap.org, a website that helps create maps free for anyone to use for any purpose. If Ordnance Survey and other national a... Open Source Mapping – and open data generally…

Interesting article in the Guardian yesterday about
an attempt to map the Isle of Wight’s roads in one weekend for OpenStreetMap.org, a website that helps create maps free for anyone to use for any purpose. If Ordnance Survey and other national a…

]]> By: AC Marsden http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/05/theres-no-economic-incentive-to-free-data-until-we-produce-one/comment-page-1/#comment-565 AC Marsden Fri, 12 May 2006 07:59:06 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=38#comment-565 ...and as has been staed elsewhere on this blog and on the discusion of the Wikipedia entry here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Grid OS retain copyright over the National Grid. …and as has been staed elsewhere on this blog and on the discusion of the Wikipedia entry here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Grid OS retain copyright over the National Grid.

]]> By: Nicholas Verge http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/05/theres-no-economic-incentive-to-free-data-until-we-produce-one/comment-page-1/#comment-539 Nicholas Verge Thu, 11 May 2006 19:23:21 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=38#comment-539 A correction - The 1998 Copyright act explicitly states that Crown Copyright persists for fifty years after the end of the year of the date =first= publication of a document (book, map or paper) to whcih it applies. End of the year means after midnight (00GMT) January 1st of the new year. Thus, at the present time, Crown Copyright has expired on all Ordnance Survey maps first published in 1955 or earlier. Crown Copyright on OS maps first published in 1956 expires at 00.00.00GMT 01-01-2007. A correction –

The 1998 Copyright act explicitly states that Crown Copyright persists for fifty years after the end of the year of the date =first= publication of a document (book, map or paper) to whcih it applies. End of the year means after midnight (00GMT) January 1st of the new year.

Thus, at the present time, Crown Copyright has expired on all Ordnance Survey maps first published in 1955 or earlier. Crown Copyright on OS maps first published in 1956 expires at 00.00.00GMT 01-01-2007.

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