The Europeana Licensing Framework

The Europeana Licensing Framework

Paul Keller (Kennisland) @paul_kellerCCPA meeting, Rotterdam, 6 december 2011

2011: building the Europeana Licensing framework

Metadata related to the digitised objects produced by the cultural institutions should be widely and freely available for re-use. (Key reccomendation, p.5)

Europeana Data Exchange Agreement

Europeana builds on four layers of information:


Layer #1: Physical objects (books, paintings, etc...)



Layer #2: Digital objects (digital reproductions of #1)




Layer #3: Previews (lower quality versions of #2)





Layer #4: Metadata (descriptve information of object)





















EDM:rights

Implementation timeline for the Europeana Data Exchange Agreement



22 sept 2011:Launch of DEA



31 dec 2011:DEA replaces

old agreements




old agreements

signing period




old agreements

1 jul 2012:metadata published

under CC0

signing period




old agreements


under CC0

signing period grace period




old agreements


under CC0

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we are here

2012 and onwards: increase the amount of free & open content in Europeana











Within the Europeana Awareness project (2012-2014) the BnL, the Institute for information Law, Europeana and Kennisland will

Work on mechanisms for rights clearance in mass digitization projects (Extended Collective Licensing)Improve compliance of rights information with the Europeana Data Model and and the Europeana Public Domain CharterPromote the use of Creative Commons licenses for digital objects to make them available for re-use.

Priorities for improving the amount of (open and free) content in Europeana

Cultural institutions should make public domain material digitised with public funding as widely available as possible for access and re-use. This should be part of the funding conditions for digitisation across Europe. (Key reccomendation 1, p.5)

[The European Commission hereby recommends that Member States] improve access to and use of digitised cultural material that is in the public domain by:

ensuring that material in the public domain remains in the public domain after digitisation,promoting the widest possible access to digitised public domain material as well as the widest possible re-use of the material for non-commercial and commercial purposes,taking measures to limit the use of intrusive watermarks or other visual protection measures that reduce the usability of the digitised public domain material;

European Commission reccomendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material (27 October 2011):

Work with contributing organisations that hold rights in the content that they make available through Europeana to make these available under a Creative Commons licenseThis will allow re-use an re-distribution of this material by others such as educational istitutions, in user-generated content and by platforms such as Europeana.

Promote the use of Creative Commons licenses

Continue research undertaken into Extended Collectve Licensing Arrangements for the digitization for cultural heritage collections.Intended to provide solutions for organizations contributing to Europeana (focussing on trans border issues)

Research into mechanisms for solving rights issues encountered in mass digitization projects

Education

The Europeana Licensing Framework