[OpenGLAM] Online access to cultural heritage now! - Open letter to the EC

Thu Oct 29 19:56:08 UTC 2015

No! 'If you work at an institution and have to deal with copyright, please have a look at it and, if you agree, support it!' is not the standard for signing this. The standard for signing this is if you are (a) representing a European cultural heritage institution and (b) you are authorized to sign on its behalf. We are not looking for individual signatures we are looking for organizational signatures. i guess we have not been clear enough about this in some of our earlier communications. If you work at an cultural heritage institution (or have connections there) and you want to support this effort then you should try to get the organization to support this statement. /Paul 

> On 29 Oct 2015, at 17:11, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at europeana.eu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for sharing Lieke!
> Yes, this is a very important letter. If you work at an institution and have to deal with copyright, please have a look at it and, if you agree, support it!
> 
> In the meantime: The New York Times also picked up on OpenGLAM :) 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/arts/design/new-online-openness-lets-museums-share-works-with-the-world.html?_r=1
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> All the best,
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> Joris
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> On 29 October 2015 at 14:23, Lieke Ploeger <lieke.ploeger at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
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> The European Commission is currently working on modernising EU copyright rules as part of its strategy to create a Digital Single Market for Europe. This is a great opportunity to influence the outcomes and make sure that galleries, libraries, museums and archives will be able to make their collections openly available online. 
> 
> That is why Europeana, together with the directors of 29 major cultural heritage institutions have written an Open Letter strongly in favour of updated copyright rules addressed to Commissioner Oettinger, Vice President Ansip and Commissioner Navracsics. 
> 
> The letter has been summarised by Paul Keller of Kennisland here: https://www.kl.nl/nieuws/open-letter-on-copyright-reform-calls-for-better-online-access-to-cultural-heritage/
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> and by Communia: http://www.communia-association.org/2015/10/27/directors-of-major-european-cultural-heritage-institutions-demand-copyright-reform/
> 
> Additional support is very welcome and can greatly strengthen the ability to influence the outcome: you can add your institution to the list through this page: http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-ipr/advocacy/calling-for-updated-eu-copyright-rules
> 
> Best regards, Lieke Ploeger.
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