This document discusses barriers to harmonizing licenses across borders. It notes that national laws on personal data protection and intellectual property rights, as well as the culture of public bodies regarding ignorance, concerns about misuse, and decreasing income pose limitations. The document advocates for dialogue between technical and legal solutions, focusing on user needs, and learning from projects like GSDI that aim to standardize licensing without reinventing processes.
Community Building as Scaffolding for a Working Public Sector
Janssen
1. Legal interoperability –
barriers to the harmonisation
of licences
Katleen Janssen
ICRI – K.U.Leuven - IBBT
SharePSI workshop - 11 May 2011
2. Harmonising licensing
• From national and sectoral initiatives to cross-border
legal interoperability
– Limitations imposed by national law
• Protection of personal data
• Intellectual property rights
– Culture of public bodies
• Ignorance
• Concerns about misuse
• Decrease in income
3. Harmonising licensing
• From national and sectoral initiatives to cross-border
legal interoperability
– Limitations imposed by national law
• Protection of personal data
• Intellectual property rights
– Culture of public bodies
• Ignorance
• Concerns about misuse
• Decrease in income
4. Harmonising licensing
• From national and sectoral initiatives to cross-border
legal interoperability
– Limitations imposed by national law
• Protection of personal data
• Intellectual property rights
– Culture of public bodies
• Ignorance
• Concerns about misuse
• Decrease in income
5. Harmonising licensing
• Dialogue between technical and legal solutions
• User needs
• Not reinvent the wheel
– E.g. GSDI licensing project
6. Harmonising licensing
• Dialogue between technical and legal solutions
• User needs
• Not reinvent the wheel
– E.g. GSDI licensing project
7. Harmonising licensing
• Dialogue between technical and legal solutions
• User needs
• Not reinvent the wheel
– E.g. GSDI licensing project
8. Thank you!
katleen.janssen@law.kuleuven.be
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