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

Tue Jan 22 10:05:47 UTC 2013

15 years was Google Books standard agreement but they are making them
shorter in Europe.

In the UK the standard framework contract from the national archives is 10
years.

LOC in the USA was consulting on 3 years

My view is that the duration should be set in the project business plan
with either transparent cost recovery or a clear priority for shorter term
contract bids.

Costs should be coming down and you are killing off the potential advantage
of competitive tendering, if you believe in such things.
On Jan 21, 2013 7:31 PM, "Paul Keller" <pk at kl.nl> wrote:

> 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:
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> > 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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