On 24/10/2011 08:35, Francis Davey wrote:
2011/10/24 Mark Goodge<[email protected]>:
That looks an interesting site (seems broken at the moment, but I presume
that's merely an artifact of it still being in beta). Do you know, and if so
are you able to share, how they managed to obtain the data from Companies
House?
I'm specifically authorised to share something about it.
They buy all their data from Companies House (who have various bulk
buy deals which are fairly simple) and then upload it to their web
server. Simples.
Interesting. So they're paying for the data, but giving it away free?
That doesn't look like a sustainable business model to me :-)
Copyright problems are avoided by section 47 of the CDPA 1988:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/47
That's also interesting.
Note: anyone with the ear of government ministers or who could put me
in touch with someone who would really listen, a simple amendment to
section 47 could prevent a lot of silliness about copyright in FOIable
information, just as a simple amendment to the Defamation Act 1996
could for libel.
Governments rarely do simple. There's no publicity in it.
Mark
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