I think Professor Scassa is exactly right. Anyone who's been paying any sort of attention over the last five to 10 years recognizes that in what we once thought of as data that is open and may be used, oftentimes we're talking about data that didn't have the appropriate consent in the first place, and certainly not necessarily the consent for the kinds of reuse that you start to see online. Simply couching it as, “It's available, so you can use it”, without recognizing that many of those uses may be wholly different, even if there was consent obtained.... Sometimes there may not have been, but even if there was consent, it may not be related to these new kinds of uses, so we have to tread really carefully.
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