The Closed Door of Open Government: Creative Commons as a remedy for Crown copyright barriers

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Wakaruk, Amanda

• Presentation at Creative Commons Summit 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. Program Abstract: The closed door of open government: Creative Commons as a remedy for Crown copyright barriers Open licensing of government publications is a laudable goal, but is rarely achieved in Canada. As a result, many government works have become inaccessible, or even been lost due to Crown copyright chill. This session will report on recent advocacy work to persuade Canada’s federal government to update an antiquated and undemocratic copyright provision. This includes parliamentary testimony provided by Creative Commons and other stakeholders.

• Date created

  2019-05-10

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Crown copyright, Open government, Creative Commons, Advocacy, Copyright reform, Copyright law

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-r0x9-xm28

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International