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

Tue Apr 23 21:10:54 UTC 2013

There are actually a couple of other exceptions for previews & the
DPLA marks, so let me try again:

Metadata - all contributed metadata is CC0 (and the DPLA asserts that
they believe most of it is not copyrightable anyway)
Images, Video, & Audio on DPLA site - individually licensed per rights
statements in metadata (this covers thumbnails, previews, etc on DPLA
site)
User contributed content - CC-BY (ambiguous as to whether required
attribution is to DPLA only or original contributor)
DPLA marks, dress, look & feel - all rights reserved
Actual content - individually licensed per rights statements in
metadata (note that none of this is, currently, hosted on the DPLA
site, but on the original owning institutions sites)

Tom

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> That blogger didn't read the Terms of Service carefully enough.  The
> actual item contents are under a potluck of licenses, but all DPLA
> content (not cataloged content) *except* the metadata is released
> under CC-BY.  The metadata is all explicitly CC0:
>
> http://dp.la/info/terms/
>
> 5.2. Metadata
>
> All Metadata has been dedicated to the public pursuant to Creative
> Commons’ CC0 public domain dedication, and is available for download
> through DPLA’s Metadata API. Please read DPLA’s Metadata Policy for
> more information regarding the Metadata.
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Peter B. Hirtle <pbh6 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> On point 2 below, you might be interested in the blog posting “Public
>> library, not public domain” at
>> http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2013/04/19/public-library-not-public-domain/
>> which makes the point that while the metadata about collection items is
>> released under a CC BY license, the content itself is not.  Furthermore,
>> some repositories claim ownership and limit use of public domain material.
>> The author’s conclusion:
>>
>>
>>
>> …this is a public library, but its holdings — like those of any library —
>> may still be protected and can not just be assumed to be public domain. We
>> all need to take care to respect the rights of the contributors of the
>> content and any intellectual property rights of the authors and creators.
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter Hirtle
>>
>>
>>
>> From: pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org
>> [mailto:pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gray
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 1:42 PM
>> To: Public Domain discuss list
>> Cc: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data;
>> open-glam at lists.okfn.org
>> Subject: Re: [pd-discuss] What We Hope the Digital Public Library of America
>> Will Become
>>
>>
>>
>> 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> 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> 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> 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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