5.3: Crown Copyright
Begin a communications campaign to re-present and improve understanding of the permissive aspects of Crown Copyright along
the lines of creative commons.
Other Information:
When the public sector publishes information people should understand that it is intended for re-use. Action is required to
improve understanding of Crown Copyright, which the Taskforce found to be mis-understood by creators and re-users of data.
Crown Copyright, despite its historic name, is designed to encourage re-use in the majority of cases yet the taskforce found
little appreciation of this. There were even suggestions that it was deterring potential re-users. OPSI should begin a communications
campaign to re-present and improve understanding of the permissive aspects of Crown Copyright along the lines of creative
commons by end June 2009. The use of symbols within creative commons is helpful in making the scheme intelligible to a broad
range of non-expert users. OPSI may wish to give consideration to how government licensing could benefit from a greater use
of symbols and other graphical means of conveying licensing information.
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