Community Copyright

Just when you start to think that all your tax money spent somewhere within the European Community leads to producing information that is free to all (or at least to all Europeans) a legal disclaimer pops up.

I have no idea for what reason the European Commission is not permitting reproduction of the information they create. Do they intend to sell it?

Apart from the feeling that there will be nobody buying it anyway, it seem to me that the European Community of tax payers already paid for it...

But hey, if I can get paid twice for the same thing - I'd sure be tempted to start such a rip off just as well.

post scriptum:
I just wrote to the responsible(?) and asked if they would provide it for free (as in public use). An email reply will be sent to you if necessary was the answer. Interesting...

post post scriptum:
The Europa Coordination Team wrote me an answer allowing me to use the content from that website. The only problem: Authorisation is only granted if the source is acknowledged. Hmmm, difficult if it is used for wikipedia where information is free.