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

Mon Jan 21 18:57:18 UTC 2013

current norm seems to be 15 years, but generally with less stringent exclusivity provisions. There is an ongoing discussion in brussels as part of the PSI directive to put a maximum term on these kind of agreements…. /paul  

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On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 18:44 , Tom Morris wrote:

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