[OpenGLAM] Fwd: Licensing of digital images

[Adam Green]

Woo hoo!

We need to have some kind of page of honour for institutions like teh
Walters taking the good step forward - I'm planning something for PDR, but
also maybe would be good for Open Glam, have you thought about this?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dylan Kinnett <dkinnett at thewalters.org>
Date: 9 January 2013 16:37
Subject: Re: Licensing of digital images
To: William Noel <wgnoel at upenn.edu>, Adam Green <
adam.green at publicdomainreview.org>
Cc: Lynley Herbert <lherbert at thewalters.org>


Adam,

Work is ongoing to have our licensing language revised on the
manuscripts-related pages, to remove the non-commercial clause from it. We
hope to have this revision in place within a few days.

I'll be sure to let you know as soon as that's in place, but if you wold
like to proceed with your use of these materials in advance of the revised
license, you are free to do so.

Also, please feel free to let me know if you have any other questions,
comments or concerns.

--
Dylan Kinnett: Web & Social Media Manager at The Walters Art Museum






On 1/9/13 11:33 AM, "William Noel" <wgnoel at upenn.edu> wrote:

>Dear Adam
>
>I write very concisely because I have no time, but thanks for your email.
>1) The Walters Open initiative started with the manuscripts, but it
>started non-commercial.
>2) The Walters as a whole went the whole nine yards a couple of years
>later, But the manuscripts has yet to work on changing its metedata about
>licensing, which is embedded, and needs careful thought.
>3) However, The Manuscripts are in fact available under the same
>conditions as the rest of the Walters images, and could be used by you. I
>just wish it said so.
>4) I no longer work at the Walters. I would love it if you could
>celebrate our manuscript images, and I am copying this email to Dylan
>Kinnett at The walters, who I hope can reassure you that this is the case.
>
>I am sorry I cannot be clearer. I hope you will take things up with Dylan.
>
>Thanks
>
>Will
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Adam Green" <adam.green at publicdomainreview.org>
>To: wgnoel at upenn.edu
>Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 9:03:18 AM
>Subject: Licensing of digital images
>
>Dear Will Noel,
>
>
>I am the editor of The Public Domain Review -
>http://publicdomainreview.org/ - I thought it would be easier to take the
>conversation (that my colleague Jonathan Gray started a couple of days
>ago) forward to email from the confines of twitter!
>
>
>Firstly, I just want to say how great your digitisation project is -
>http://www.willnoel.com/p/walters-art-museum-manuscripts.html - there is
>some really great stuff on there!
>
>
>I am a bit confused though about the licensing.
>
>
>The Public Domain Review project is about celebrating works that are in
>the public domain, and ones which specifically have remained open when
>they have been published digitally, i.e. published under an open license
>(that is, unrestricted, not just non-commercial)
>
>
>We were really excited to learn about The Walters publishing all their
>digital images openly, under a CC-BY license -
>http://art.thewalters.org/license/
>
>
>We see though that the digitisation project at the Walters you point to
>is licensed under a NC license -
>http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/04_TechnicalReadMe.html#license_and_use
>
>
>Are they totally separate digitisation projects, hence the ability to
>have these two different licenses? If so, might you consider changing the
>NC license to one that is open? It would be great to start a conversation
>about this!
>
>
>Many thanks for your time,
>
>
>Adam.
>
>
>--
>Adam Green
>
>Editor, The Public Domain Review
>http://publicdomainreview.org/
>
>The Open Knowledge Foundation
>http://okfn.org/




-- 
Adam Green

Editor, The Public Domain Review
http://publicdomainreview.org/

The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
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