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摘要

Spring's here; the sap's rising, and it's the time of year when man's thoughts turn to copyright issues.rnThe government's consultation paper,'Policy Options for Geographic Information from Ordnance Survey', is important because it goes to the heart of its own'Place Matters' strategy, which through public lobbies, such as The Guardian's Free our Data campaign, has finally had to address the fact that information procured using taxpayer's money should be available to the public who paid for it, without additional charge.