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
_______________________________________________Hi allI'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 muchBest
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