The Global Open Data Index 2014 is out. The progress made is not in tune with the rhetoric, reports Monika Ermert.
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User-generated content
User-generated content in a legal vacuum
There is user-generated content in many shapes – from musicians setting up their own labels, funded and supported by users to remixes of the latest political campaign slogans. What is still pending, is a genuine European copyright reform which would address this type of content.
Open government
Hard times for open data
Despite a flurry of commitments, real open data progress seems slow, according to a new census. And then, there are governments excelling in both open and secret data.