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Fundacja "Centrum Cyfrowe"

Centrum Cyfrowe is a think-and- do tank with a focus on fostering a digital civic society in Poland through the development of open models for education, science, culture and public information.

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Response to Review of the Directive on the re-use of public sector information (Directive 2013/37/EU)

11 Jul 2018

At the beginning, we would like to welcome the proactive approach of the European Commission regarding the re-use of public sector information. In particular, we are happy to support the extension of the scope of the directive to “certain research data, a specific category of documents produced as part of scientific research, namely results of the scientific fact-finding process (experiments, surveys and similar) that are at the basis of the scientific process”. However, we think that there is still much to do in order to achieve the goals set in the Directive. In particular, there are still significant differences in regulations and practices regarding the re-use of public sector information in various EU countries. Unfortunately, this proposal is not sufficient in this respect. A year after an implementation of the Directive to the Polish law, we conducted a study regarding the scale and practices of re-use. Report can be found at https://centrumcyfrowe.pl/blog/2017/09/04/reuse-of-public-sector-information-act%E2%80%8 A-%E2%80%8Aone-year-after-coming-into-effect/ . Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation is a part of Communia Association, which also took part in this consultations. We fully support Communia’s feedback. As Centrum Cyfrowe we focus our comment on the problems with third party intellectual property rights, which in particular concerns situation in our country. Our detailed comments are available in the attached file.
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