According to the EU Directive 2003/98 public sector bodies can currently charge the cost of collection, production, reproduction and dissemination, together with a reasonable return on investment. If the upper limit for charging was lowered to the marginal costs of reproduction and dissemination...

This paper deals with the search of optimal paths in a multi-stage stochastic decision network as a first application of the deterministic approximation approach proposed by Tadei et al. [48]. In the network, the involved utilities are stage-dependent and contain random oscillations with an...

This paper deals with the search of optimal paths in a multi-stage stochastic decision network as a first application of the deterministic approximation approach proposed by Tadei et al. [48]. In the network, the involved utilities are stage-dependent and contain random oscillations with an...

Should public undertakings be covered by the PSI Directive? The definitions of public sector bodies and bodies governed by public law, to which the PSI Directive applies, are currently taken from the public procurement Directives and public undertakings are not covered by these definitions....

This memo intends to identify and link together a number of crucial topics concerning the charging for the re-use of Public Sector Information under the Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (the PSI Directive) and the draft Proposal for a Directive amending the...

This memo intends to identify and link together a number of crucial topics concerning the licensing for the purpose of re-use of Public Sector Information under the Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (the PSI Directive) and in connection with the draft Proposal for a...

The recently-amended European Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive rests on the assumption that government data is a valuable input for the knowledge economy. As a default principle, the directive sets marginal costs as an upper bound for charging PSI. This article discusses the terms under...

The EU General Data Protection Regulation is supposed to introduce several innovations, including the right of data portability for data subjects. In this article, we review recent literature documenting experiments to assess users' valuation of personal data, with the purpose to provide...

This article analyses the Italian Cultural Heritage Law (Legislative Decree 42/2004, Art. 107) and makes some references to similar laws, such as the Greek one (Law 3028/2002, Art. 46), highlighting how these sets of norms produce a quasi-intellectual-property protection concerning the cultural...

To understand the strategies governing competition in the market for software platforms, it is necessary to consider three distinct but interconnected fields: technological, economic and legal.The first part of this paper is devoted to the synthetic description of some indispensable technical...