The licensing policies adopted by public sector information holders (PSIHs) directly affect two of the items expressly mentioned in Art. 13(2) of the EU Directive 2003/98: the extent of re-use of public sector information and its increase rate. Moreover the optimization of rules and policies...

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...

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...

Open access (OA) is a concept that in recent years has acquired popularity and widespread recognition. International statements and scholarly analysis converge on the following main characteristics of open access: free availability on the public Internet, permission for any users to read,...