[Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Economic value of the public domain

Mon Feb 23 10:46:24 UTC 2015

Thank, Stevie!

With the IP Observatory finally starting to work on the Public Domain
Economic Contribution Study, it seems like we'll have a good number of
scientific reports on this topic soon.

By the way, I am trying to gather everything here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Documentation#Studies_by_Other_Parties

Dimi

2015-02-23 11:30 GMT+01:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Please see the below. The UK's Intellectual Property Office has
> commissioned a study into the value of the public domain. As Andrew
> highlights in his email, Wikipedia comes out of it rather well...
>
> I'm going to read the whole report when I have time but this will
> certainly strengthen our case for PDGov.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Stevie
>
>
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> From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>
> Date: 23 February 2015 at 09:36
> Subject: [cultural-partners] Economic value of the public domain
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> cultural-partners at wikimedia.ch>
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>
> A recurrent topic, this one. A new UK study has appeared:
>
> https://zenodo.org/record/14975/files/CREATe-Working-Paper-2015-01.pdf
>
> "The overall purpose of the project was 1) to map the size of the
> public domain and frequency of its use; 2) analyse the role of public
> domain works in value creation for UK businesses; 3) assist creators
> and entrepreneurs to identify business models that benefit from the
> public domain." ...
>
> Interestingly, it seems to duplicate the recent work done looking at
> images on Wikipedia as an example of this:
>
> "Using commercially equivalent licence fees obtained from Corbis and
> Getty for images relating to the biographical sample, we estimate a
> total value of USD $208 million (GBP £138 million) per year for the
> 1,983,609 English-language Wikipedia pages in appropriate categories
> which contain public domain images."
>
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