[OpenGLAM] content trafficking

Tue Sep 10 18:40:35 UTC 2013

On 9 September 2013 16:31, Bettina Cousineau <bdcousineau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thinking about "content trafficking" lately. Has anyone written about this
> term? I've sketched a definition, but it seems too pejorative.
> Edits/comments welcome!
>

I love the term!

>
> Content trafficking is the trade in public domain works by the host
> cultural heritage institution as a revenue source. Content trafficking is
> evident in many forms: gift products, reproductions, commercial and
> non-commercial use and licensing fees, and public paywalls. Historically,
> the host institution controls the levels of extracted income from "their"
> public domain works.
>

I think you want to distinguish between re-use of content (e.g. gift
products) which is, surely, what we want to encourage, and restrictive
licensing, which is what we want to discourage.

Paywalls are fine if they protect only your proprietary value add and _not_
the underlying public domain materials.

>
> I'm certainly hopeful that in my lifetime content-trafficking will end!
>
> Cheers
>
> Bettina
>
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