1. ePSIplatform
Conference 2013
Open Data and Liability –
Fiction or fact
Laila Aslesen, Senior Legal Advisor, Kartverket
(Norwegian Mapping Authority )

2. Liability for data
content
• Case in question: Rocknes
• Shipwrecked in January 2004
• Claims
• Notice to Mariners did not include
the bank
• Navigators could not be expected
to have the latest chart
• Final decision in 2009
• No negligence and any professional navigator
would have the latest chart
• Shipwreck due to the conditions of the ship

3. Not just a legal issue
• Why a law suit at all?
• The gamble
• Governments have deep pockets
• Politics
• Bad publicity may make the
government pay
• Shifting the blame
• Claims were made early on that the construction
compromised security for more profit