Whilst the BBC and Guardian make it clear that they get their results from the PA, if a team were to trawl through the council websites collecting the information themselves wouldn't this be ok? As it's the councils publishing the individual results and them making the data open (at least Lincoln have) then the final database should also be open?
Ryan Cullen w: http://blog.artesea.co.uk e: [email protected] t: @artesea On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:10, Roger Moffatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Given the debate on the copyright issue, it certainly seems to need some > clarification? > > It all seems to stem from the problem that the data hasn't been created in > the public domain by the UK Parliament in the first place. One would hope > that given the importance of transparency to the operation of democracy, > that the information regarding candidates, votes and basically everything > surrounding the election that we see on the news daily, would in fact have > one central, independent, reference source. > > The lack of that central reference source seems to be the crux of the > matter. This reflects what often seems to happen with councils being given a > mandate to run things, but there being no pressure on them to publish data > in any common or readily acceptable form. > > My worry is that I see so much data recycling (organisation A takes data > from Organisation B and then tweaks it before Organisation C uses it for a > feed that is used by Organisation D etc) that not only is the legality of > the data open to question, but so is the integrity. > > It is extraordinarily tempting just to use the data that can be found on > the grounds of fair use / news access and even public interest, but it is > frustrating that the legal position isn't clearer. > > Perhaps the Press Association will get back and say they are happy for > anyone to use their election data with attribution ... that would be a nice > resolution. > > Roger > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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