[open-bibliography] [pd-discuss] What We Hope the Digital Public Library of America Will Become

[Karen Coyle]

Jonathan, my understanding has been (in the US) that making an exact 
copy does not result in any additional rights for the copy itself. The 
one exception can be for previously unpublished works -- it is not known 
whether digitization and placing online meets the criteria of 
"publication" in US copyright law. But in any case, a "slavish copy" is 
not generally eligible for any rights protection beyond those of the 
original.

kc

On 4/23/13 10:42 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Absolutely. Adam (Editor of the the Public Domain Review) tweeted to Dan
> Cohen about this [1], but we'd still like to follow up on this with them.
>
> I guess there are two main issues here:
>
>    i. Copyright status of work (presumably in US in first instance) -
> and here they could either do manual marking by institution (e.g. with
> Public Domain Mark for things which are definitely known to be out of
> copyright), and possibly could look into semi-automated with
> calculators, though more work is probably needed here. Perhaps could be
> an interesting to do a public domain calculation hackathon with
> Europeana, DPLA, WMF and others on this topic, building on existing work
> in this area [2] - including with Tulane if they plan to open up their
> research/code?
>
>    ii. Rights status of digital reproductions. E.g. Public Domain Mark,
> openly licensed, CC licensed, claims of copyright in digital
> reproductions, etc. One would hope that the DPLA would encourage use of
> the Public Domain Mark amongst contributing institutions. I don't know
> whether there have been any discussions of taking a principled approach
> to this, as per Bridgeman and Corel (along the lines of the Wikimedia
> Foundation's position on this [3]), along the lines of their position on
> data, but this could be an option.
>
> J.
>
> [1] https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/324935697519759361
> [2] http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators/
> [3]
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#The_position_of_the_WMF
>
>
> On 23 April 2013 02:38, Timothy Vollmer <tvol at creativecommons.org
> <mailto:tvol at creativecommons.org>> wrote:
>
>     Agreed, nice post Jonathan. I think one thing the DPLA site might do
>     is allow search by copyright status, similar to how Europeana does
>     it. That'd be nice. Does anyone know if this is being considered? Of
>     course, the site just launched, so maybe it's on the to-do list.
>
>     http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html
>     http://dp.la/search
>
>     tvol
>
>
>     On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com
>     <mailto:meta.sj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         This is lovely.  Thank you, Jonathan!  What do you think of the
>         site so far?
>
>         On Apr 17, 2013 10:17 PM, "Jonathan Gray"
>         <jonathan.gray at okfn.org <mailto:jonathan.gray at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
>             I just posted a piece on the Open Knowledge Foundation's
>             blog about what we hope the new Digital Public Library of
>             America will become, which might be of interest to some of you:
>
>             http://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/17/what-we-hope-the-digital-public-library-of-america-will-become/
>
>             Looking forward seeing what comes out of the official launch
>             tomorrow!
>
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