The Swedish National Heritage Board has had an internal policy promoting the use of CC BY, CC0 and PDM since 2017 but today they communicated internally in a very forceful way. Part of the message (my translation from Swedish):
"Employees may not in their service use others copyrighted photographs that cannot be marked with CC BY, CC0 or PDM.
Material that cannot be marked with PDM, CC0 or CC BY shall not be digitized or published."
While it may not change their output much (they are already among the best in Sweden) I suspect this will send strong signals in the Swedish GLAM sector.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com
Hi Jan,
Would you mind to share some links regarding the news for additional information about the program?
Thanks!
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:20 AM Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
The Swedish National Heritage Board has had an internal policy promoting the use of CC BY, CC0 and PDM since 2017 but today they communicated internally in a very forceful way. Part of the message (my translation from Swedish):
"Employees may not in their service use others copyrighted photographs that cannot be marked with CC BY, CC0 or PDM.
Material that cannot be marked with PDM, CC0 or CC BY shall not be digitized or published."
While it may not change their output much (they are already among the best in Sweden) I suspect this will send strong signals in the Swedish GLAM sector.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
I will as soon as there are any publicly available links.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com
Den fre 1 feb. 2019 kl 18:05 skrev Claudio Ruiz <claudio@creativecommons.org
:
Hi Jan,
Would you mind to share some links regarding the news for additional information about the program?
Thanks!
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:20 AM Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
The Swedish National Heritage Board has had an internal policy promoting the use of CC BY, CC0 and PDM since 2017 but today they communicated internally in a very forceful way. Part of the message (my translation from Swedish):
"Employees may not in their service use others copyrighted photographs that cannot be marked with CC BY, CC0 or PDM.
Material that cannot be marked with PDM, CC0 or CC BY shall not be digitized or published."
While it may not change their output much (they are already among the best in Sweden) I suspect this will send strong signals in the Swedish GLAM sector.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
-- Claudio Ruiz Director of Ecosystem Strategy Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org @claudio _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
Hi Jan,
I'm a little surprised by this strong statement. Maybe I'm not familiar enough with the materials they typically digitize/publish (my reference point is their Dutch sister organization).
I'm all in favor of not spending government (or in this case, agency) funds on non-free materials, but I can imagine quite a few edge cases where digitizing photos that are not yet free, may be beneficial (because some day, they will be - and some materials have the nasty habit of deteriorating). Or is this kind of scenario simply out of their scope?
Best, Lodewijk
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 2:20 PM Jan Ainali jan@aina.li wrote:
I will as soon as there are any publicly available links.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com
Den fre 1 feb. 2019 kl 18:05 skrev Claudio Ruiz < claudio@creativecommons.org>:
Hi Jan,
Would you mind to share some links regarding the news for additional information about the program?
Thanks!
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:20 AM Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
The Swedish National Heritage Board has had an internal policy promoting the use of CC BY, CC0 and PDM since 2017 but today they communicated internally in a very forceful way. Part of the message (my translation from Swedish):
"Employees may not in their service use others copyrighted photographs that cannot be marked with CC BY, CC0 or PDM.
Material that cannot be marked with PDM, CC0 or CC BY shall not be digitized or published."
While it may not change their output much (they are already among the best in Sweden) I suspect this will send strong signals in the Swedish GLAM sector.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
-- Claudio Ruiz Director of Ecosystem Strategy Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org @claudio _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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Well, they are not mainly a digitizing organization, most of what they do is taking care of the cultural heritage in the wild. I also believe they already digitized most of their photos years ago (and if I recall correctly over 95% of that is under free licenses or PD). What is being digitized now is new additions (like if someone donates photos) or really old paperwork (being in the public domain). So I guess that one thing they want to state with this is that they will not accept donations unless they are put under a free license. The other thing is about new productions, that they shouldn't hire photographs that won't accept CC terms or use regular stock photo sites, or even photos from other agencies that are not as progressive.
Best regards Jan Ainali http://ainali.com
Den ons 6 feb. 2019 kl 02:33 skrev L.Gelauff lgelauff@gmail.com:
Hi Jan,
I'm a little surprised by this strong statement. Maybe I'm not familiar enough with the materials they typically digitize/publish (my reference point is their Dutch sister organization).
I'm all in favor of not spending government (or in this case, agency) funds on non-free materials, but I can imagine quite a few edge cases where digitizing photos that are not yet free, may be beneficial (because some day, they will be - and some materials have the nasty habit of deteriorating). Or is this kind of scenario simply out of their scope?
Best, Lodewijk
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 2:20 PM Jan Ainali jan@aina.li wrote:
I will as soon as there are any publicly available links.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com
Den fre 1 feb. 2019 kl 18:05 skrev Claudio Ruiz < claudio@creativecommons.org>:
Hi Jan,
Would you mind to share some links regarding the news for additional information about the program?
Thanks!
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:20 AM Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
The Swedish National Heritage Board has had an internal policy promoting the use of CC BY, CC0 and PDM since 2017 but today they communicated internally in a very forceful way. Part of the message (my translation from Swedish):
"Employees may not in their service use others copyrighted photographs that cannot be marked with CC BY, CC0 or PDM.
Material that cannot be marked with PDM, CC0 or CC BY shall not be digitized or published."
While it may not change their output much (they are already among the best in Sweden) I suspect this will send strong signals in the Swedish GLAM sector.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
-- Claudio Ruiz Director of Ecosystem Strategy Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org @claudio _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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