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PSI at Marginal Cost

Source: The online home of Rufus Pollock

Policy recommendations in the Area of Innovation, Creativity and IP

Rufus Pollock has published a topic titled: Policy Recommendations in the Area of Innovation, Creativity and IP. The article includes five recommendations:

IP policy, and more generally innovation policy, should aim at the improvement of the overall welfare of UK society and citizens and not just at promoting innovation and creativity
Move away from a focus on intellectual property to look at innovation and information policy more widely
Make digital, non-personal, upstream PSI available at marginal cost (zero)
Regulation should be transparent, independent and empowered. For every public sector information holder there should be a single, clear, source of regulatory authority and responsibility, and this ‘regulator’ should be largely independent of government.
Reduce Copyright Term – And Certainly Do Not Extend It