Recommendations of the ePSIplus Network to the EC review of the Directive on PSI re-use

ePSIplus, funded under the eContentplus programme, has monitored and reported on developments on the transposition of the Directive on PSI re-use since September 2006. The sum total of the accumulated knowledge from these sources has been used to formulate the ePSIplus network recommendations on the review of the PSI Directive, which this document represents. The ePSIplus recommendations are to be discussed and validated at the ePSIplus Conference to be held in Brussels on 13 June 2008. This paper presents the draft recommendations. Whilst this is not solely germane to content and data which falls within a ‘classical’ definition of public domain (i.e. outside applicable copyright term), it is highly relevant to a broader concept of public domain where public information of all kinds may be open to all forms of re-use for a wide range of economic and social purposes. The recommendations fall under seven main headings: Progress on implementation of the Directive; Channels for redress; Discriminatory practices; Access to PSI; Stimulating the private sector to act; The Economic case; and Specific provisions of the Directive.