tim.... wrote

"martin" wrote

Someone's put in a Freedom of Information request to TfL for the
manual issued to bus drivers, the Big Red Book, which I suspect
will
be of interest to some people here.

It can be found at

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reques.../attach/3/BRB%
20Final%20version.pdf
(or, http://tinyurl.com/24l4hr5 if the link's broken)

(Useful though it is) I wonder what it is that makes the site-owner
think
that the FOI legalisation allows him to ignore the laws of copyright.

IIRC Paul Corfield and others have mentioned FOI documents that have
been placed on the TfL website.

And though your point is possibly valid in abstract law, if the
whatdotheyknow.com site had instead mentioned the success of the FOI
request and triggered dozens or hundreds of identical requests to TfL
it would not, however legal, been the sort of thing that ought to be
done. Indeed since the document is available to anyone the damages for
breach of copyright might be zero rather than nominal.

--
Mike D