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

[Paul Keller]

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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