Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:01 PM Pine W wrote: > I'm interested in this subject. An issue is that the copyright might be > owned by the government entity that created it, even if the records are > open for the public. If something is public record in California, does that > also mean that it's no

Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

I'm interested in this subject. An issue is that the copyright might be owned by the government entity that created it, even if the records are open for the public. If something is public record in California, does that also mean that it's not copyrighted by the government entity that created it?

[Talk-us] State Open Data

In California, we are quite fortunate to have not only a great deal of open data, but an explicit (two, actually) state Supreme Court cases which unambiguously assert that data created by the state in the name of the People belong to, yup, We, the People. In other words, if the data are public,