Hi Mathias
This is super helpful thanks, a few follow on questions about the directive
if you or anyone else knows.
- Do you know if there's anything I could read which discusses how these
parts of the directive are applied to cultural organisations? Basically
what this means in practice and any examples
- What does 'where the re-use of such documents is allowed' mean? Is it
'if its publicly available it has to be under an open license'? Or
something else?
- What encourages governments to follow this directive? Is it a legal
requirement? Or is it best practice, or they get some kind of recognition
or potential for funding?
Thanks again
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 16:51, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
You should look into EU Directive 1024/2019, the Open
Data directive.
The core of this Directive is Article 3:
"Article 3
General principle
1. Subject to paragraph 2 of this Article, Member States shall ensure
that documents to which this Directive applies in accordance with Article 1
shall be re-usable for commercial or non-commercial purposes in accordance
with Chapters III and IV.
2. For documents in which libraries, including university libraries,
museums and archives hold intellectual property rights and for documents
held by public undertakings, Member States shall ensure that, where the
re-use of such documents is allowed, those documents shall be re-usable for
commercial or non-commercial purposes in accordance with Chapters III and
IV."
(documents are defined very broadly in Article 2).
There is also a 10 year old Recommendation (which is a non-binding
document by the Commission) regarding cultural goods.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:283:0039:0….
It does not talk directly about open licenses.
The Commission has made some progress here.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/strategy-2020-20…
might be interesting for you as well concerning publicly funded works.
Mathias
On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 4:43 PM john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all
I'm exploring working with an EU member state to help them adopt open
licenses for their content, especially educational and cultural content
from their ministry of culture, museums etc.
Having worked at UNESCO for 6 years I'm pretty familiar with the OER
Recommendation and how that encourages states to adopt open licenses. (Any
thoughts welcome on this also).
My question is are there any recommendations, targets, policies, laws,
funding opportunities etc for EU member states which encourage them to
adopt open licenses for government content or government funded content?
Any suggestions on who to ask this question to?
Thanks very much
Best
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