The FOI responsbilites of a defunct organisation have to be assumed by another body. For example FOI requests about the London Development Agency are now handled by the Greater London Authority.
On 15 Jan 2013, at 09:12, Stefan Magdalinski <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/colm%40truthmonkey.org _______________________________________________ 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
