EU public consultation on the access to Public Sector Information (PSI)
Published Monday 20 of December, 2010
The EU Commission recently launched a public consultation to gather
feedbacks on the application of, and possible amendments to, Directive
No. 2003/98/EC regulating access to Public Sector Information (“PSI”).
Access
to, and reuse of, PSI is critical to the free circulation of culture
within a democratic society. Therefore, AFACE responded to the
consultation.
You may find the whole text of AFACE’ s response to the consultation at this link. For your information, some of the views supported in AFACE’s s response are reported below:
- In general, laws should compel a more open access to PSI, while
“soft” law (e.g. standardization of databases) should be used to
encourage coordination between public administrations (“PAs”);
- All PAs and public enterprises (including public broadcasters)
should allow access to all of the documents they own, which should all
be considered PSI;
- All types of “documents” – including audiovisual ones and orphan
works – should be considered PSI as long as created in the exercise of a
public service, notwithstanding the existence of any IP rights;
- Access to PSI should be allowed at reasonable prices, which should
only take into account the PA’ s costs for maintenance and the type of
re-use made, not grant a profit to PA.
Please send us your ideas and thoughts to support fair copyright and
free circulation of culture in Europe.
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