[euopendata] Harmonisation on "public domain" metadata in Europe?

Tue Jun 29 19:12:12 UTC 2010

Just picking this up:

-- CC0 (Creative Commons) and the Open Data Commons PDDL (Public Domain Dedication and License) are two public domain legal tools that allow for an assertion of something being in the public domain (as in free from copyright and database rights).

-- CC has its ccREL to express this as metadata, and CC0 is just like the other licenses.

Does this help?  I'm not sure I see how this is different from the legal tools we already have in place.

Thanks!

~Jordan

On 23 Jun 2010, at 14:34, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Yes -- exactly Peter, this is what we were discussing. Paul has let me
> know that IVIR and Kennisland are working on something for Europeana,
> which should be available shortly. We will discuss this further in
> Torino next week, and I'll report back here!
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 13:49, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think OKF would be interested in hosting something like this -- if
>>> it would be useful. Any thoughts Jordan?
>>> 
>> 
>> As I have understood there may be various legal interpretations of
>> "free from copyright" or "public domain" in european countries so it
>> would be great to have some professionals from the legal domain have a
>> look at what it would say.
>> 
>> It should be fairly straight forward to create a page (like
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) with a short text, define
>> a permanent URL pointing to that page (preferably through purl.org in
>> the unlikely event that OKF disappears) and launch a competition for a
>> visual symbol.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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