Now, you have your computer ask their computer to send a copy to your computer. Before the widespread publishing of data on the web, even if you had identified a dataset you needed, you’d need to ask whoever had a copy to make it accessible to you, possibly involving paper and the post or a personal visit. To state the obvious, obtaining data has never been easier. Legal restrictions on data usually won’t get in your way, and you can easily make sure they won’t get in the way of others using data you’ve published.
Don’t let any of the following dampen your enthusiasm for data driven journalism. In this section we’ll have a quick look at the state of the law with respect to data and databases, and what you can do to open up your data using readily available public licenses and legal tools.
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