Copyright cannot be used to hide FOI requests

Copyright cannot be used to hide FOI requests


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/0...isclosure/

That is the law as far as todays court rulings go.

This is gonna kill a few demons in the IT world.
Repeatedly companies and management trolls have
hidden behind copyright as a weapon against FOI
but that will no longer work from today. Every
government tender that contains secret copyrighted
documents can now be obtained even if the captains
of crap want to hide it from prying eyes that
want to see if the taxpayer got value for money.

It may also apply to FOI requests against companies
like the screwy patent troll company micorshaft
run by screwy lawers hiding documents through NDA
and their phoney war against Linux with their list
of software patents that no one can see.

Its possible that PR companies that operate trolls
are also not immune now from FOI reqests despite
funding all their trolling operations through
charities. Because disclosing any document
under the framework of FOI request that contains
sensitive information such as 'donors' also does not break any laws.