New Rights on Public Domain via Digitalization?

The Conflict of Library Control Interests and Reuse in Web 2.0

Patrick Danowski- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Outline

• The situation in libraries

• The situation in web 2.0

• Library vs. Web 2.0

• The wind of change

WSIS & PD

A rich public domain is an essential element for the growth of the Information Society, creating multiple benefits such as an educated public, new jobs, innovation, business opportunities, and the advancement of science

(WSIS Declartion of Priciples point 26)

Open Licenses

Open Licenses

• Open Access

Open Licenses

• Open Access

• Berlin Declaration: worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose

Open Licenses

• Open Access

• Berlin Declaration: worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose

• Creative Commons Licenses: CC-BY / CC-BY-SA

The situation in libraries

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Why are libraries doing this?

• (no empiric research just some thoughts from a lot of talk)

• We paid - we own

• Middle age: Control who reads the book

• Internet: Control who use the digital from

• Libraries love to control

Why (2)

• Libraries love statistics

• The visitor should come to there website

• Fear somebody will sell their content

What‘s about the US?

• Only forced public domain for US use

• US-PD can be copyright protected for the rest of the world

• Statement needed, so that users can be safe

Yochai Benkler (Yale Law School) in Steel This Film II

Library

• ReUse

• Remix (of Content, Data and Services)

• Creating something new

• Enhancing what is already there

Situation in Web 2.0

Amazon Visualization

Amazon Visualization

Amazon Visualization

Amazon Visualization

Amazon Visualization

Wikisource

Wikisource

• Sisterproject of Wikipedia

• Selected Sources:

• Interesting and Special

• not aviable in fulltext (now)

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

• users can catalogue

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

• users can catalogue

• in future: can be a source for a book URN

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

• users can catalogue

• in future: can be a source for a book URN

Open Library Project

• Goal: A free index of all books

• Access to full text if possible

• users can catalogue

• in future: can be a source for a book URN

Open Library Project

Open Library Project

• bringing together so many data as possible

• data of publishers (ONIX)

• data of national libraries (MARC21)

Context Library 2.0

Context Library 2.0

• Allow Reuse of digitalization

Context Library 2.0

• Allow Reuse of digitalization

• Don‘t ask for new rights on public domain

Context Library 2.0

• Allow Reuse of digitalization

• Don‘t ask for new rights on public domain

• New Opportunities through ReMix and ReUse

Context Library 2.0

• Allow Reuse of digitalization

• Don‘t ask for new rights on public domain

• New Opportunities through ReMix and ReUse

• e.g. transcriptions, that couldn‘t be made

Libraries vs. web 2.0

• Control

• We pay - we own

• Visit our side

• Just do it!

• ReUse

• Create new sides and project

The wind of changeCopyright 2.0

Flickr Commons

• Flick Comons: pictures with no rights

• good for pictures, not for total digital books

Flickr Commons

• Flick Comons: pictures with no rights

• good for pictures, not for total digital books

Flickr Commons

• Flick Comons: pictures with no rights

• good for pictures, not for total digital books

European Commission

• No new rights through change of form

• until now informal

• next week the EU Commission publish a paper about this issue

Creative Commons

• Public Domain License (only valid in US)

• CC-zero (in work): finding way for all countries to put something in PD or mark something as PD

• Microformat thats helps to find free content on the whole web

MicroformatsSemantic Metadata by users

Microformats

web-based data formatting approach

re-use existing content as metadata

using XHTML and HTML classes / attributes

human readable

automatically processable by software

Typs of Microformats

hCard: contacts

hCalendar: dates

hReview: reviews

hResume: vitas

XFN: social networks

… (see www.microformats.org)

Example

The user view

The user view

Citations in Microformats

hcitation

just a first draft

libraries can / should participate

Conclusions

• We should encourage the reuse of digital objects

Conclusions

• We should encourage the reuse of digital objects

• Public Domain should stay public domain in the digital world

Conclusions

• We should encourage the reuse of digital objects

• Public Domain should stay public domain in the digital world

• new chances through reuse and remix

Conclusions

Things to remember

Things to remember

• Some libraries declare new copyright on digitalized public domain

Things to remember

• Some libraries declare new copyright on digitalized public domain

• Other projects like to reuse this stuff

Things to remember

• Some libraries declare new copyright on digitalized public domain

• Other projects like to reuse this stuff

• Change happens

Things to remember

• Some libraries declare new copyright on digitalized public domain

• Other projects like to reuse this stuff

• Change happens

• The idea of the Public Domain has to be transformed in the digital world

Let‘s rethink the handling of digital objects in a digital world

Let‘s rethink the handling of digital objects in a digital world

Let us build a rich digital public domain

Let‘s rethink the handling of digital objects in a digital world

Let us build a rich digital public domain

Patrick Danowski - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlinpatrick.danowski@web.dePatrickD@Twitter