Florida government office may not copyright maps

December 8, 2004

Official loses copyright case
By MIKE HOYEM, The News-Press Bonita Springs Florida, December 8, 2004.

A court has ruled Collier County Property Appraiser Abe Skinner cannot copyright maps created by his office and demand royalties from those who use them to make a profit. Wednesday’s decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland was hailed as a victory for public records access by the First Amendment Foundation, an open-government advocacy group in Tallahassee.

Share

Related posts:

  1. Agency Criticizes Copyright Office Stance On DMCA
  2. Case vs Greenpeace thrown out
  3. Looking good for P2P
  4. Archive of UK Central Government websites
  5. US Government shuts down independent news: update

posted in Copyright by jajacobs

 
Powered by Wordpress and MySQL. Theme by Shlomi Noach, openark.org