Access to and use of public sector documents and public speeches – new policy paper

peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-02-28

Summary:

"Access and use of public sector documents and political speeches are key to a thriving democracy and civil society as they ensure transparency and accountability. Furthermore, they provide society with important historical records about political decision making. Copyright and paywalls, however, can render access to these materials difficult or prohibitively expensive. Today, COMMUNIA is releasing a new policy paper #16 “on public sector documents and public speeches” (also available as a PDF file), in which we are proposing EU level solutions to guarantee access to an usability of these essential documents, as well as to political and other public speeches...."

Link:

https://communia-association.org/2024/02/28/access-to-and-use-of-public-sector-documents-and-public-speeches-new-policy-paper/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.communia oa.copyright oa.pd oa.recommendations oa.europe oa.copyright

Date tagged:

02/28/2024, 09:18

Date published:

02/28/2024, 04:18