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CANADA/LAW: Crown Copyright Past Its "Best Before" Date?
From iPolitics:
https://ipolitics.ca/2019/04/26/government-should-do-the-right-thing-and-end-crown-copyright/
I notice that the US federal government makes a point of not having similar practices re: documents and data they produce for the public's usage. In fact, the rule is: if the US government produced it for the public to see and use, it's public domain unless there's a damn good reason to do otherwise. Personally, the US approach to such things makes more sense to me.
But Canada is a smaller country, we have to make do with less in lots of ways, and this is part of it, too, I suppose...
https://ipolitics.ca/2019/04/26/government-should-do-the-right-thing-and-end-crown-copyright/
I notice that the US federal government makes a point of not having similar practices re: documents and data they produce for the public's usage. In fact, the rule is: if the US government produced it for the public to see and use, it's public domain unless there's a damn good reason to do otherwise. Personally, the US approach to such things makes more sense to me.
But Canada is a smaller country, we have to make do with less in lots of ways, and this is part of it, too, I suppose...