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On 8 July 2016 at 01:51, とある白い猫 <to.aru.shiroi.neko@gmail.com> wrote:
> It can be argued that the current copyright obfuscates the general public's
> access to the report.
How so?
> I do feel that any single email from us would be promptly ignored as there
> probably is a large volume of emails. It may be prudent to either start a
> petition (for the Parliament) or ask a few MPs to raise the copyright issue
> in the Parliament.
Petitioning for what? The report is already under the CC-by compatible
Open Government Licence 3.0
> First of, the websites terms and conditions do not explicitly release the
> works under a free license.[1]
No, the report's licence is on the pages of the report itself.
> Moreover it mentions BSkyB, BBC and ITN as copyright holders of some of the
> documents. Any migration to Wikisource must filter out such content.
Are your referring to inclusions in the report, or to other content on
the inquiry website?
> Lastly there are a number of now declassified documents that provide vital
> evidence to reinforce the reports findings, these too need to be freely
> licensed.
AIUI, they are (albeit with understandable redactions).
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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