Access to legal databases produced by the Direction of the legislative and
administrative information (DILA), will be completely free and free current
2014 from Legifrance, even for commercial reuse.
Until then, full access to legal databases produced by the Dila from
Legifrance required to carry out pay TV licences. This limit is now lifted,
after a recent decision of the Interministerial Council for the modernization of
public, recovery and welcomed action on the site of the french group of the
information (FGII) industry in a press release issued at the end of last
week.
Possible professional reuse
Specifically, all public legal
databases produced by the Directorate of legal and administrative information, a
service of the Prime Minister (DILA) will be searchable and reusable (even for
commercial purposes) without restriction.
Available from Legifrance following bases are concerned: the texts published
in the Official Journal of the French Republic, the national collective
agreements, the judgments issued by the Court of cassation, the decisions of the
courts of appeal and courts of first instance, the decisions of the
Constitutional Council, of the administrative courts, the deliberations of the
CNIL and the bottom bringing into force ministerial circulars.
FGII, this elimination of the barriers to legal bases reuse "should allow for
development of the uses of legal information, in particular for analytical
applications based on text Mining and Data Mining technologies