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Development &
Technical Services
REPORT
Report To: Finance & Corporate Services Committee
Date of Meeting:
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Date of Report:
Report No.:
March 2, 2009
Jeff Willmer, Lesley MacDonald
Jeff Willmer
All
February 17, 2009
DTS 09-032
Subject: PERMISSION TO PUBLISH CITY-OWNED MATERIAL
RECOMMENDATION:
That the CAO, upon consultation with the City Clerk and the City Solicitor and the appropriate
General Managers} be authorized to grant permission for City-owned and copyrighted material to
be published elsewhere, when in his/her opinion the material is substantially in the public realm or
of such a general nature that there is no valid reason to withhold such permission.
BACKGROUNDIREPORT:
From time to time the City is requested to grant permission for certain copyrighted material to be
published. Rather than having Council consider each of these requests individually it is recommended
that the CAO, in consultation with the City Clerk and the City Solicitor and the appropriate General
Managers) be authorized to decline such permission, or to grant it when in his/her opinion the material is
substantially in the public realm or of such a general nature that there is no valid reason to withhold such
permission. Any permission granted may be subject to the display of a disclaimer on the document when
published which shall, in addition to anything else, address the currency of the document, said disclaimer
to be satisfactory to the City Solicitor.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
No capital costs are associated with this report. Some copyright holders charge a permission fee. In the
case of municipal government documents it is normally in the greater community interest to encourage
the wide distribution of information. Therefore we do not propose to charge a permission fee.
Jeff Willmer
General Manager,
Development & Technical Services
Lesley MacDonald
Director, Legal Services
City Solicitor