This document summarizes a presentation on copyright and open licensing as they relate to cultural commons. It discusses issues around access, reuse of digitized works, and inconsistent metadata. Solutions proposed include open licensing standards to promote sharing of content while protecting rights, international legislation to support public domains, and community education around values of sharing cultural works. The presentation advocates for technology frameworks, collective rights management, and networking to promote openness within the cultural heritage sector.

1. Creative Commons NL
Maarten Zeinstra & Nikki Timmermans
Copyright and open licensing:
OKFest, Building the Cultural Commons
19 September 2012
@mzeinstra
@nikkitimmermans

3. Copyright related issues to the Commons
• (technological) Access / re-use
• Rights in digitized works
• No unified European copyright law / Public
Domain
• Incomplete metadata

4. Solution tools
1. Open licensing, standards, formats
2. International / national legislation / Policy
3. Community education / shared value set

5. Open licensing
• Consider multiple levels of IP protection:
• Metadata
• Content in PDM or under CC-BY / CC-BY-SA

6. Open Standards
• OAI-PMH
• EDM
• XML
• RDF
• Dublin Core
• CC-REL

7. CC-REL
<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My
Book</span> by
<a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName"
href="http://rejon.org/my_book">Jon Phillips</a>
is licensed under a
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative
Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License</a>.
<span rel="dc:source" href="http://deerfang.org/her_book"/>
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at
<a rel="cc:morePermissions"
href="http://somecompany.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">somecompany.com</a>.
</span>

8. Open formats
• Ogg
• ODF
• Flac
• Png
• WebM
• HTML
• mkv

9. European and National legislation
• Copyright law is too rigid for a digital society;
reform
• Orphan Works Directive
• PSI-directive for Cultural Institutions
• Rights policy

10. Community education & organisation
• Creative Commons
• Communia Association
• OpenCultuurData.nl
• Europeana.eu
• GLAMwiki
• OpenGLAM
• Public Domain Review

11. Way forward?
• How to promote open licensing / standards/
formats for cultural institutions?
• How to organise the European field towards a
shared legislation?
• How to endorse a culture of sharing within the
cultural heritage sector?

12. Technology driven
• www.outofcopyright.eu
• APIs
• Promote technological frameworks
• Adopt a GLAM-wide rights infrastructure standard
• CC0 for metadata
• CC BY-SA at most for content
• (Treat a longer content description as separate
content object)

13. Legislation / Policy driven
• Collective Rights Management
• Approaching rights holders
• Manage rights upon acquisition of objects /Manage
rights in contracts with employees: make checklist
or draft / layered contract or clause + blogpost
• Lobby for exceptions
• Embrace the PSI directive; public and private
institutions (with esprit)

14. Community driven
• Create Networks
• Organize Workshops/Master classes; cooperatation
institutions and CC network
• Collect best practices
• Measure impact and re-use

15. Thank you!
@mzeinstra
@nikkitimmermans
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