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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1737 - 1739
1737 - 1739
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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 [email protected]@Twitter
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