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ePSIplus is documenting legal cases and decisions with a bearing on public sector information (PSI) re-use issues. The documentation on these cases includes comprehensive summaries including references and links.
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Competition Authority, Iceland Decision 52/2006, 19 December 2006
Kvörtun Loftmynda ehf. vegna Landmælinga Íslands
Decision of the Office of Public Sector Information SO-42-8-4, 13 July 2006
Intelligent Addressing complaint regarding the Ordnance Survey
Decision of the Office of Public Sector information SO 42/8/5, December 2006
The Association for Census Distributors (ACD) complaint regarding the Ordnance Survey
Decision of the Office of Public Sector Information SO-42-8-6, May 2007
Zero-Now complaint regarding Milton Keynes Council
Decisions of the Italian AUTHORITY CONTROLLING COMPETITION AND MARKET (31 August 2004)
Decisions of the Italian AUTHORITY CONTROLLING COMPETITION AND MARKET as to two denunciations against INFOCAMERE Spa and CERVED Spa, reporting alleged unfair competition.
UK - Decision of the Office of Fair Trading No. CA 98/07/2004
TM Property Services Limited's complaint against MacDonald Dettwiler (Hub) Limited and MacDonald Dettwiler (Channel) Ltd (trading as Transaction Online) 18 August 2004 (Case CE-2941/03).
In France, the Météo France dispute shows the growth of a consumer movement about public data access.
La Dépêche du GFII (522)(Météo France, Sitescope, The Environment Agency)
27/07/2004
In France, the Météo France dispute shows the growth of a consumer movement about public data access.
The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet (30 June 2004)
The National Weather Service wants to update a 1991 policy that limits what data it can put on the Internet. The proposed new policy makes putting free data on the Internet official. The Private Weather Sector wants NWS to provide its new digital forecasts only in specialized data formats and would like NWS to shut down new XML data feeds.
Belgian National Weather Service (24 June 2004)
Description of a dispute between a commercial vendor of weather information and the Belgian National Weather Service
ORDNANCE SURVEY – THE GROUND RULES (November 2003)
This article by Edward Pitt of UK legal firm Addleshaw Goddard, seeks to set out the legal framework of rules covering Ordnance Survey's behaviour when competing as a commercial undertaking and how those rules (especially the competition rules) are designed to encourage Ordnance Survey to supply first class geographic information alongside others in the public and the private sector, in the light of interesting recent items in the press recently making some assertions about Ordnance Survey's obligations when competing with the private sector.
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