Copyright and FOIA

FOIMan writes about the relationship between copyright and freedom of information. Practitioners and others often get confused about the way that copyright interacts with FOI. In this piece for the Freedom of Information Journal, I attempt …

Flopsy ROPSI

FOIMan looks at a cuddly sounding piece of legislation that features in some FOI responses – and causes confusion. The Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 are not the best known piece of UK …

Game, Dataset and Match

FOI Man highlights forthcoming changes to FOI and provides some hints and tips for public authorities on how to deal with them. Last year, the Protection of Freedoms Act was passed. Amongst the changes it …