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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to abolish Crown and other forms of governmental copyright on all publicly funded documents. More details
Submitted by Gareth Winchester – Deadline to sign up by: 22 November 2007 – Signatures: 113
More details from petition creator
Despite the fact that all public documents are funded by the taxpayer, the taxpayer does not have the right to use them as they see fit; they have to get permission off the government - in the form of a licence - to be able to use them. Effectively we are being charged twice: once for creating them, once more for using them.
Current signatories
Gareth Winchester, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Dr Chris Cumberpatch
- Simon Gibbs
- Asa M. Thorpe
- Tom Griffin
- Gwyn Richards
- Guy Dorje Johnston
- Davide Simonetti
- James Dowden
- Philip Hunt
- Mark Benjamin
- Martha Back
- Dave Lambert
- Chris Mounsey
- Christopher Bunker
- Daniel Staple
- richard datchler
- Linton Dawe
- Anthony John Berrow
- Chris Brierley
- Graham Toal
- Andrew Guard
- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
- David Chapman
- preet sangha
- Simon Myers
- Heather Brooke
- Malvin Wall
- Feargal Hogan
- Philip Oakley
- Gareth Davidson
- Robin Green
- Bernard Peek
- a jenkins
- Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
- Rob Spiller
- Douglas Fraser
- William B
- Steve Ashton
- S Edge
- Stuart Fyfe
- Darren Gillies
- David Boniface
- Neville A. Daniels
- Myles Sifflet - Barry
- Mark Sparshatt
- Robert McMurray
- Elizabeth Dunster
- Lee Roberts
- Alan Roberts
- Sarah McCulloch
- Nathan Baum
- Andrew Montgomery
- Jolyon Hallel
- Paul Williams
- David Cantrell
- richard armitage
- James Lowey
- Andrew Chadwick
- Richard Kelham
- Caroline Ford
- Dean Sas
- Alan Bates
- Andrew Macpherson
- Vijay Chopra
- I Lindsay
- Adam Sampson
- Leon Brocard
- Graeme West
- Mark Buckland
- Iain Wallace
- Tommy Adakms
- Andrew Main
- David Bean
- arron martin zeus Brown
- Chris Isaac
- James Porter
- Malcolm Mladenovic
- Andrew Smith
- Simon Howard
- David Maximillian Waterman
- Michael Wilson
- Andrew Dornan
- Lee Hart
- Oliver Tansley
- Susannah Clayton
- Renee Rosen-Wakeford
- Sam Smith
- Sarah McCulloch
- Damien Dye
- Barbara Robbins
- Crispin Cooper
- Liam Slater
- Alan Graham
- Haren Visavadia
- Tom Porch
- John A Thomson
- Colin Angus Mackay
- Daniel Bond
- Steve Denman
- Fergus Allan
- Paul Webster
- Philip Cudmore
- James Sutherland
- Mark Crosby
- R SHILSTON
- David Rimmer
- Richard Pelling
- Peter Darby
- Therese Jeffery
- Fiona Nicholson
- John Cross
- Stuart Leather
