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

Tue Apr 23 19:42:16 UTC 2013

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

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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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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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