On 15 Jan 2013, at 15:59, Sam Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 Jan 2013, at 02:20, Stefan Magdalinski <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 15 Jan 2013, at 01:11, Julian Todd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I believe our instincts were always to use such threats for additional >>> publicity and raise the profile of the action. I think this made a >>> difference to the political calculation as to any response, and >>> probably explains why we are a bit thin on examples. >>> >> >> yep. >> >>> It is likely that, were we to get into trouble, and had we had got >>> professional legal advice, they would have told us to keep completely >>> silent and let them handle everything. >> >> When we did the mass scraping of the Crown Copyright data that became >> Upmystreet.com, we actually did ask the government if what we doing was OK. >> The 2 page letter that came back from Her Majesty's Stationery Office was so >> incomprehensible that our copyright lawyer couldn't decipher whether it said >> yes or no, and that we could probably go ahead on that basis. >> >> To this day, there is no document that I regret more strongly not having a >> copy* of, and secondly, I still wonder if this was deliberate. > > Have you considered asking for a copy under FoI? (or just generally asking > nicely...)
* the asterisk was to point out that this had only just occured to me. question: can one FOI a defunct organisation? (HMSO). Stef > > > > Sam > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/stefan%40whitelabel.org -- /* Stefan Magdalinski +62 811 9591262 smagdali (IM/twitter/flickr/dopplr/skype/etc) */ _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
