[pd-discuss] All public domain material liberated by 2020?

[Jonathan Gray]

I think it would be a tremendous thing if Europeana were to pursue this
goal more aggressively (e.g. by proactively encouraging institutions to
open up their digital holdings as per the Public Domain Charter, not just
their metadata), and to take seriously and foreground the idea that this
should happen for all digital copies of public domain works - or even just
in Europe - throughout their activities. All digital copies of public
domain works open with no restrictions by 2020 is no mean feat.

I concur that this should not be at the expense of efforts in other areas -
e.g. copyright reform, especially with Neelie Kroes's stated interest in
this area [1] - but that doesn't mean that this isn't a laudable goal!

[1]
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/commissions-work-copyright-reform



On 21 November 2013 19:53, Paul Keller <pk at kl.nl> wrote:

> well i do not think that this is such a great aspiration. in fact that is
> something that was formulated under the guidance of a participant from the
> Federation of European publishers. If these guys can promote such a
> aspiration then we are either aiming to low or something else is wrong (in
> this case the focus on liberating PD material is probably a attempt to
> distract Europeana and its partners from engaging in meaningful policy
> discussions on copyright). /paul
>
>
> On 21 Nov 2013, at 19:39, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> > A great aspiration from Europeana:
> >
> > "A goal for #Europeana: in 2020 all Public Domain material is freely
> available for any to re-use without any restrictions. #AllezCulture"
> > https://twitter.com/Europeanaeu/status/403539329248944128
> >
> > Would be great to make lots of noise about this by retweeting, sharing
> and responding to this suggestion! :-)
> >
> > For those of you who haven't seen it (I'm sure that many/most of you
> have) here's the Public Domain Charter from the Europeana Foundation:
> >
> > http://www.publicdomaincharter.eu/
> >
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