[pd-discuss] Communia position paper on digitization agreements

Mon Mar 18 07:50:43 UTC 2013

Dear all,

Have you thought about mentioning the E-Books on Demand service as an alternative approach to digitization agreements:
http://books2ebooks.eu/en

The principle is simple: someone interested in having a PD work scanned pays a scanning fee; the institution does the scanning, and the scan is made available online to other users.

Licensing practices vary between the different institutions: some provide their content in a truly "free" manner; others apply limiting licensing terms. Note however that some of the libraries also make works available that may not be in the PD. Here some examples:

The National Library of Sweden publishes their scanned works under the

CC-PD mark:

http://www.books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/nls/en/agb.html

Library am Guisanplatz, Bern, seems to scan not only PD books: "Public

domain books or books for which we receive a declaration of consent

from the author or publishing houses are imported by us into the

digital library of the Library Am Guisanplatz and are thus globally available and also preserved for the long term."

There is no contractual limitation as to the use of the material.

http://www.books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/big/en/paymentanddelivery.html

Zentralbibliothek Zürich also doesn't have a contractual limitation

concerning the use of the material.

http://books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/zbz/en/paymentanddelivery.html

Umea University Library prohibits commercial use in their terms of

service. At the same time they write: "Digitised books are imported by

us into the digital library of the Umeå University Library and are

thus globally available and also long-term preserved."

http://www.books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/umub/en/paymentanddelivery.html

The Royal Library, the National Library and Copenhagen University

Library by the way haven't updated their Terms yet: "eBooks acquired

via EOD may be used for personal, non-commercial purposes only. By

ordering you accept the Terms and Conditions." Furthermore, they offer

the most expensive service, according to EOD indications (more than

double of what Zentralbibliothek Zürich is charging; good that there are hopes that this will indeed change soon ;-)):

http://www.books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/kb/en/paymentanddelivery.html

You'll find a list with prices and terms of use on the EOD website:

http://books2ebooks.eu/en/prices

Best regards,
Beat Estermann

From: pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Primavera De Filippi
Sent: Freitag, 15. März 2013 17:43
To: Public Domain discuss list
Subject: [pd-discuss] Communia position paper on digitization agreements

Dear all,
The Communia association has completed the preliminary draft of the position paper on digitization agreements, we would be grateful if you could comment up it.
The paper is available as a google-doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xA0zPxp9kOQOg79gkc6WcZ_7kCs1XYNeVZ1NcY8mVwU/edit
Please feel free to comment / edit / suggest / or contribute in anyway you like   :)
Cheers,
Primavera
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