[LINK] Copyright and the Public Record

[Jan Whitaker]

At 12:00 PM 20/11/2013, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
>prevents councils from copying, publishing or
>distributing copyrighted plans or consultants' reports without
>permission from the author.

Thanks, Alex.
Note the above: permission. I guess there is a possibility of asking 
submitters in these circumstances for permission and those developers 
who care about good public relations with their eventual 'neighbours' 
during construction periods and beyond would be quite happy to do so, 
no? If something is viewable upon demand in the council office, the 
information isn't secret after all.

There are several ways to read law: restrictive and permissive. It's 
up to bureaucrats to consider the benefit to the public, but 
obviously that takes a bit of thinking and effort, too.

I think it's worth a complaint all the same. That's the only way 
regulations and operations change.

Jan



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