Maintaining a healthy and thriving Public Domain
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Maintaining a healthy and thriving Public Domain
Paul Keller, OK Festival 2014 Berlin
…or rather ‘Problems that you run into when fighting against appropriation of the Public Domain’
source: own photo, unknown artist, amsterdam 2012
For now lets assume that we are all activists…
… fighting to preserve the concept of the public domain (that there are things that are not owned)…
… and that we are the good ones (as all good activists do)
…but also that we are the minority
David en Goliath, Jan Luyken, Barent Visscher, Andries van Damme, 1698 (via rijksmuseum.nl)
UnmarkedAll Rights ReservedCreative CommonsPublic Domain
Digital Objects in Europeana by category of rights
Satan verkoopt de wereld aan een man, Jan Luyken, Pieter Arentsz & Cornelis van der Sys, 1710
Schilderkunst achtervolgd door onnozelen, anoniem, 1700 -‐ 1800 (via rijksmuseum.nl)
“Our Legal Department confirms that our Archives intended as Image Bank are
protected by copyright and therefore by the Italian law, then the label must indicate the copyright and not the free access and no-‐reuse. You can controll the Law and the
Codex.”
“In addition our archive is under the protection of this Cultural Heritage Ministry
as National Heritage.”
The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter , Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1655 (via rijksmuseum.nl)
Map of Europe shaped as a virgin, Heinrich Bünting (via wikimedia commons)
#1 if we want to be effective in our advocacy we need to know what we are talking about.
#2 we need to develop a shared understanding of the tradeoffs that we are willing to accept (or not)
David onthoofdt Goliath, Caspar Luyken, 1712 (via rijksmuseum.nl)
thank you! questions? [email protected] or @paul_keller