[pd-discuss] Communia condems the privatisation of the public domain by the BnF

Mon Jan 21 17:44:06 UTC 2013

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Peter B. Hirtle <pbh6 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> I assume you know about some US statements on the issue from ARL:
>
> Principles to Guide Vendor/Publisher Relations in Large-Scale Digitization
> Projects of Special Collections Materials, June 2010
> (http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/principles_large_scale_digitization.pdf)

Those all seem like pretty common sense guidelines, but some of them
are open-ended such as "Restrictions on external access to copies of
works digitized from a library’s holding should be of limited
duration."

Do you have a sense what the current norm is for these types of
agreements?  Is 10 years longer, shorter, or about average?

Tom