[LINK] Copyright and the Public Record

[Jan Whitaker]

Just a guess, but I'll bet someone just made that up to brush you 
off. If it were true that copyright would be violated, none of the 
Commonwealth or State websites would exist.
You might contact your state Local Government office or state 
Planning Department for clarification and issue a complaint.

Jan

At 11:13 AM 20/11/2013, David Boxall wrote:
>A small incident that Linkers might find interesting.
>
>A while back, the local council exhibited a development proposal that
>has attracted a deal of opposition. When the exhibition period ended, I
>found that I could no longer access files associated with the
>development application.
>
>I asked how I could now access the files. The answer I got was that, for
>copyright reasons, I could only read paper copies in Council's offices.
>
>Development Applications are public records. I imagine moral rights
>(attribution, etc.) persist. Restricting access or use in any other way
>seems a little dodgy to me.
>
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