[d@DCC] Potentially deadly copyright dispute

[Russell McOrmond]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Wallace J.McLean wrote:

> http://stjohns.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nl_chartfight20040409

    It's all because of a nasty copyright issue. Charts are made at 
    taxpayer expense by the Canadian Hydrographic Service, but 10 years
    ago the service made a deal with a Newfoundland company called NDI,
    and handed the company sole rights to all Canadian charts in
    electronic form.


  I'd love to see the contract.  If disputed it is likely that the work
hired by the government may be under copyright by the consultant but the
government still has rights to the work to license as it sees fit.  There
are people who will be doing Access to Information requests for software
commissioned by the government which may prove to be an interesting
precedent.

  If I lived there and needed that information I would do an ATIP request 
to see what would happen.

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