Legal considerations in the dissemination of licensed digital spatial data.(American Geographical Society Library )

From: Library Trends | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Day, Patti; Maene, Chieko | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

State and local governments increasingly license digital spatial data, the dissemination of which by academic libraries requires specific legal and operational considerations to reconcile license conditions with public access. We examined this in the context of the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during 2000-05. Wisconsin open records law protects the right of access to public records, and geographic data is ...

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