Thanks very much indeed for your clear answers. You've given me a very clear direction to work towards.
Best On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 19:15, Mathias Schindler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 7:12 PM john cummings <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Mathias >> >> This is super helpful thanks, a few follow on questions about the >> directive if you or anyone else knows. >> >> - Do you know if there's anything I could read which discusses how >> these parts of the directive are applied to cultural organisations? >> Basically what this means in practice and any examples >> - What does 'where the re-use of such documents is allowed' mean? Is >> it 'if its publicly available it has to be under an open license'? Or >> something else? >> - What encourages governments to follow this directive? Is it a legal >> requirement? Or is it best practice, or they get some kind of recognition >> or potential for funding? >> >> > A Directive is one of two main ways of EU legislation. EU member states > are required to implement these Directives into national law. In the case > of the EU Open Data Directive, EU member states are creating or modifying > existing national laws that satisfy the requirements of this Directive. A > French government institution does not have to observe the Directive > directly with the French law implementing this Directive. > https://eur-lex.europa.eu/advanced-search-form.html?action=update&qid=1623175624612 > is a search engine (it is not perfect) to see where a EU Directive has been > transposed. > > Regarding your second question (referring to Article 3 (2) of the > Directive), it is a fancy way of saying that IF reuse is allowed (since > there are many exceptions for certain cases), it should be for both > commercial and non-commercial re-use, which is a good thing. Recital 44 > explains a bit more: > > " > > (44) > > The re-use of documents should not be subject to conditions. However, in > some cases justified by a public interest objective, a licence may be > issued imposing conditions on the re-use by the licensee dealing with > issues such as liability, the protection of personal data, the proper use > of documents, guaranteeing non-alteration and the acknowledgement of > source. If public sector bodies license documents for re-use, the licence > conditions should be objective, proportionate and non-discriminatory. > Standard licences that are available online may also play an important role > in this respect. Therefore Member States should provide for the > availability of standard licences. Any licences for the re-use of public > sector information should, in any event, place as few restrictions on > re-use as possible, for example limiting restrictions to an indication of > source. Open licences in the form of standardised public licences available > online which allow data and content to be freely accessed, used, modified > and shared by anyone for any purpose, and which rely on open data formats, > should play an important role in this respect. Therefore, Member States > should encourage the use of open licences that should eventually become > common practice across the Union. Without prejudice to liability > requirements laid down in Union or national law where a public sector body > or a public undertaking makes documents available for re-use without any > other conditions or restrictions, that public sector body or public > undertaking may be allowed to waive all liability with regards to the > documents made available for re-use." > > > > Many words were spend to describe Creative Commons without mentioning the > words "Creative Commons". > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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