Tim Berners-Lee challenges UK to make OS Maps free cost?

M.Blackmore mblackmore at oxlug.org
Fri Mar 24 14:36:52 PST 2006


http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/24/158210

Anyone know what he said?
<snip> 
 a speech by Tim Berners-Lee to an Oxford University audience in which
he challenged the British government to make Ordnance Survey mapping
data available at no cost for Web use, and reports that a Dutch court
had upheld the validity of the Creative Commons license. Each of these
stories demonstrates a breach in traditional thinking about the balance
of value to an IPR owner between licensing those rights for profit, or
making those same rights freely and publicly available. They also raise
the question: where - if anywhere - are the natural boundaries for 'open
IPR?'." 


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