The BBC reports that the UK Government is making gigabytes of government data freely available as it encourages the public to develop innovative mashups with the information. There is a prize fund for the best ideas for using data such as mapping information, medical data, and neighbourhood statistics.
UK Government Launches Data Mashup Contest
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Her Majesty The Queen, in Right of Canada owns the copyright to all federal publications and data. Under C-61 if you do a mashup of this data you’d be subject to prosecution and penalties.
Now I’m sure that Liz is a nice person and really doesn’t want her subjects to be unjustly punished, or for her to become unjustly enriched, but her servant – the Prime Minister of Canada is leading her subjects down the garden path with Bill C-61. Perhaps Liz out to ask her representative in Canada – the Governor General – to request the resignation of the current government and offer leadership of the country to the Liberals.