[OpenGLAM] content trafficking

Tue Sep 10 20:30:59 UTC 2013

Ben - yes, re-use of content for all, equally.

Ok, round two:

Content trafficking is the trade in public domain works by the host
cultural heritage institution as a revenue source. Access to use and re-use
of the public domain works is restricted by rules and/or licensing and is
accompanied by a monetary exchange. Content trafficking can be evident in
many forms: gift products, reproductions, commercial and non-commercial use
and licensing fees, and public paywalls. The host institution controls the
use/re-use and the levels of income from extracted "their" public domain
works.

Getting closer? Feel free to jumble it around, and try changes.

Thanks everyone, this is very instructive.

Bettina

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:

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> On 9 September 2013 16:31, Bettina Cousineau <bdcousineau at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Thinking about "content trafficking" lately. Has anyone written about
>> this term? I've sketched a definition, but it seems too pejorative.
>> Edits/comments welcome!
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> I love the term!
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Paywalls are fine if they protect only your proprietary value add and
> _not_ the underlying public domain materials.
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>> I'm certainly hopeful that in my lifetime content-trafficking will end!
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>> Cheers
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>> Bettina
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