[LUG] OT - petizione

[Marco Ciampa]

Lo so che è OT ma perdonatemi, mi pare estremamente importante... 
e non conosco nessuna altra lista che 'connetta' così tanti LUG ..

http://publicgeodata.org/

http://petition.publicgeodata.org/


Introduction

On 23 January 2006, the Council of European Union has formally adopted a
common position on the Inspire Directive, which stipulates that
Geographic Data collected by National Mapping Agencies all over Europe
should be owned by such agencies and not by the Public. While a lot of
datasets are available in the United States under a public domain
licence, little geographic data is available under open access terms in
Europe but is instead made available at monopoly prices by national
mapping agencies. Restricted access to geographic data for the public
and businesses due to high costs and narrow licenses means fewer
services and fewer jobs in Europe.

If the European Parliament does not reject this directive proposal,
INSPIRE will entrench a policy of charging citizens for information they
have already paid to collect, enforced by state copyright over
geographic information.
What to do?

    *      Sign the Petition
    *      [WWW] Lobby your Member of European Parliament to oppose the
           adoption of INSPIRE.
    *      [WWW] Find out more about INSPIRE, and [WWW] help develop this
           campaign platform.
    *      [WWW] Tell other people about INSPIRE, and about how they can help
            oppose it.


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Marco Ciampa

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