Creative Commons NLMaarten Zeinstra & Nikki Timmermans

Copyright and open licensing:

OKFest, Building the Cultural Commons

19 September 2012

@mzeinstra

@nikkitimmermans

Copyright related issues to the Commons

• (technological) Access / re-use

• Rights in digitized works

• No unified European copyright law / Public Domain

• Incomplete metadata

Solution tools

1. Open licensing, standards, formats

2. International / national legislation / Policy

3. Community education / shared value set

Open licensing

• Consider multiple levels of IP protection:

• Metadata

• Content in PDM or under CC-BY / CC-BY-SA

Open Standards

• OAI-PMH

• EDM

• XML

• RDF

• Dublin Core

• CC-REL

CC-REL<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">

<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Book</span> by

<a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://rejon.org/my_book">Jon Phillips</a>

is licensed under a

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons

Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License</a>.

<span rel="dc:source" href="http://deerfang.org/her_book"/>

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at

<a rel="cc:morePermissions"

href="http://somecompany.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">somecompany.com</a>.

</span>

Open formats

• Ogg

• ODF

• Flac

• Png

• WebM

• HTML

• mkv

European and National legislation

• Copyright law is too rigid for a digital society; reform

• Orphan Works Directive

• PSI-directive for Cultural Institutions

• Rights policy

Community education & organisation

• Creative Commons

• Communia Association

• OpenCultuurData.nl

• Europeana.eu

• GLAMwiki

• OpenGLAM

• Public Domain Review

Way forward?

• How to promote open licensing / standards/ formats for cultural institutions?

• How to organise the European field towards a shared legislation?

• How to endorse a culture of sharing within the cultural heritage sector?

Technology driven• www.outofcopyright.eu

• APIs

• Promote technological frameworks

• Adopt a GLAM-wide rights infrastructure standard

• CC0 for metadata

• CC BY-SA at most for content

• (Treat a longer content description as separate content object)

Legislation / Policy driven

• Collective Rights Management

• Approaching rights holders

• Manage rights upon acquisition of objects /Manage rights in contracts with employees: make checklist or draft / layered contract or clause + blogpost

• Lobby for exceptions

• Embrace the PSI directive; public and private institutions (with esprit)

Community driven

• Create Networks

• Organize Workshops/Master classes; cooperatation institutions and CC network

• Collect best practices

• Measure impact and re-use

Thank you!

@mzeinstra

@nikkitimmermans

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