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How can this data not be public domain?
by pagekalisedown 14y ago
How can this data not be public domain?
- Joakal 14y agoIf you think that's bad, government laws are copyrighted in some parts of the world. Yes, you're a pirate if you try to share government laws.
- zem 14y agoincluding the usa: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/liberating-americas-secret.html http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/liberating-americas-secret....
- hub_ 14y agoCanada law is weird. They have "Crown copyright". As for Canada Post, they are required to make money, and are not required to not exploit publicly funded dataset like the postal code database. This is called monopoly.
- frankus 14y agoI keep that particular quirk (along with their appointed senate) in my back pocket for whenever I need to name an area in which US law is more democratic/liberal than Canadian law :)
- rmc 14y agoCanada law is weird. They have "Crown copyright" I don't know about Canada, but the UK has 'crown copyright', and it's essentially the same as regular copyright, but the copyright is owned by the government. Places without a crown still have governments that have copyright. There some weird things, The King James Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Peter Pan stories are under perpetual unending copyright. (Well Peter Pan will go public domain when the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital ceases to exist)
- hub_ 14y agoUS law mandate that data created by the tax payer money, ie the government, be Public Domain.
- rmc 14y agoIn the USA, thankfully, all federally made data is public domain. In other countries, it's not. It's terrible.