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Access or re-use of PSI? A cookie if you get it right!

Katleen Janssen ICRI – K.U.Leuven – IBBT Joep Crompvoets Public Management Institute, K.U.Leuven

Back in the day...

• Freedom of information

– Sweden 1766, UN Assembly 1946, USA 1966, France 1978, The Netherlands 1978, Council of Europe 1979, Belgium 1990, United Kingdom 2000, ... – Citizens checking up on their government – public participation – Democratic basis

More recently

• Re-use of public sector information

– European Union 2003, United Kingdom 2005, France 2005, Netherlands 2005, Belgium 2007, Sweden 2010, ... – Using information for commercial or non-commercial purposes – information industry creating value-added products – Economic basis

Web 2.0

• Access or re-use?

– Traditional examples are already challenging – Web 2.0 has multiplied the problem – Democratic v. economic purposes – Democratic v. economic purposes – UK leads the way, other countries are following – Confusion remains...

What to do?

• A new definition of re-use?

– Re-use only for information industry – An ‘access-like’ right for other users

• Drop distinction between re-use and access?

– Any use is possible – No licences/ CC-like licence for everyone

Thank you!

katleen.janssen@law.kuleuven.be