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

Sun Jan 27 22:01:39 UTC 2013

On 21 January 2013 18:57, 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

Here's an interesting similar situation, from the OKFN blog a few months back:

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/11/09/us-doctor-data-to-be-open-eventually/

"The company have developed the idea of an “Open Source Eventually”
license. The data, once purchased, will remain exclusive for another
six months. Thus the incentive for funders is that they will have
exclusive access rights during that period, before the data goes open
(under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license)."

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk