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@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:2011:283:0039:0045:EN:PDF. 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-2020-2024/our-digital-future/open-science_en might be interesting for you as well concerning publicly funded works.

Mathias

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 4:43 PM john cummings <mrjohncummings@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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