How can public sector organisations protect their intellectual property rights?
A. The PSI Regulations do not affect your intellectual property rights (IPR). Your rights and ability to police your IPR are the same as they have always been. In law, the onus is on the IPR-holder to identify breaches of its rights and to then pursue the matter, either directly with the re-user or through the courts. It is for the IPR holder to decide whether doing so is in their interests. Introducing a layer of monitoring and checking could prove bureaucratic and time consuming both for the private and the public sector. It could detract from the main aim of the Regulations which is to encourage others to re-use public sector information.
