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

Wed Jun 23 13:34:03 UTC 2010

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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