text: difference whether those third parties are private, for-profit corporations or even other Public 
  
  Administrations. Unless, of course, there are national laws already in place that define in advance 
  
  what is the license of all present and future Public Data,*no matter how they were generated and by*
  
  *whom*, those data can be lost in any moment for society. In all other cases, the legal status of data 
  
  will be either officially closed and locked, or uncertain enough to prevent most or all reuses. In 
  
  February 2011, the news came that, even if they weren't the original copyright holders, Public 
  
  Engines had been able to put together enough legal claims to convince Report See to give up. 
  
  Disputes like this should not happen and would not happen if all contracts regarding collection and 
  
  management of PSI clearly specified that all the resulting data either go directly into the public 
  
  domain (after being anonymized if necessary, of course) or remain exclusive property of the 