Are their any mechanisms to encourage EU member states to adopt open licenses? - Publicpolicy

Željko Blaće

8 Jun 8 Jun

5:03 p.m.

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

I would be interested in the same + on the city level. Best Z. Blace

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john cummings

7:11 p.m.

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:

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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 _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list -- publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to publicpolicy-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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john cummings

9:23 p.m.

Thanks very much indeed for your clear answers. You've given me a very clear direction to work towards. Best On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 19:15, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 7:12 PM john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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?

A Directive is one of two main ways of EU legislation. EU member states are required to implement these Directives into national law. In the case of the EU Open Data Directive, EU member states are creating or modifying existing national laws that satisfy the requirements of this Directive. A French government institution does not have to observe the Directive directly with the French law implementing this Directive. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/advanced-search-form.html?action=update&qid=1… is a search engine (it is not perfect) to see where a EU Directive has been transposed. Regarding your second question (referring to Article 3 (2) of the Directive), it is a fancy way of saying that IF reuse is allowed (since there are many exceptions for certain cases), it should be for both commercial and non-commercial re-use, which is a good thing. Recital 44 explains a bit more: " (44) The re-use of documents should not be subject to conditions. However, in some cases justified by a public interest objective, a licence may be issued imposing conditions on the re-use by the licensee dealing with issues such as liability, the protection of personal data, the proper use of documents, guaranteeing non-alteration and the acknowledgement of source. If public sector bodies license documents for re-use, the licence conditions should be objective, proportionate and non-discriminatory. Standard licences that are available online may also play an important role in this respect. Therefore Member States should provide for the availability of standard licences. Any licences for the re-use of public sector information should, in any event, place as few restrictions on re-use as possible, for example limiting restrictions to an indication of source. Open licences in the form of standardised public licences available online which allow data and content to be freely accessed, used, modified and shared by anyone for any purpose, and which rely on open data formats, should play an important role in this respect. Therefore, Member States should encourage the use of open licences that should eventually become common practice across the Union. Without prejudice to liability requirements laid down in Union or national law where a public sector body or a public undertaking makes documents available for re-use without any other conditions or restrictions, that public sector body or public undertaking may be allowed to waive all liability with regards to the documents made available for re-use." Many words were spend to describe Creative Commons without mentioning the words "Creative Commons". _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list -- publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to publicpolicy-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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john cummings

9:24 p.m.

Thanks, I'll have a read On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 20:23, Luis Villa <luis(a)lu.is> wrote:

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John, if you’d like an introduction to the FSF Europe, the folks behind their “public money, public code” work might have some ideas? https://fsfe.org/activities/publiccode/publiccode.en.html On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 7:43 AM 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 _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list -- publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to publicpolicy-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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john cummings

9 Jun 9 Jun

12:53 p.m.

Hi Gohary Thanks very much for the suggestion. Best On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 20:46, Mohamed ElGohary <ircpresident(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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You can also sign up to join the Creative Commons Slack <https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/>, where I'm sure there are people who can help. Gohary (ircpresident) -- [image: photo] *Mohamed ElGohary* Lingua Manager, Global Voices https://globalvoices.org/lingua <http://globalvoices.org/author/Mohamed-ElGohary/> <http://ircpresident.com> <http://facebook.com/GVlingua> <http://twitter.com/GVLingua> <http://plus.google.com/+MohamedElGohary/> <http://linkedin.com/in/ircpresident> <http://instragram.com/ircpresident> Key: 0x5D13669E Fingerprints: 7838 7FE7 E0E4 BF88 0024 2703 B452 E75A 5D13 669E Amplifying Global Voices stories by the translation into dozens of languages with the help of hundreds of volunteer translators. We are Global Voices Lingua <http://globalvoices.org/lingua>! <http://globalvoices.org/donate> Donate to Global Voices <http://globalvoices.org/donate> On 08-Jun-21 9:25:32 PM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> wrote: Thanks, I'll have a read On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 20:23, Luis Villa <luis(a)lu.is> wrote:

John, if you’d like an introduction to the FSF Europe, the folks behind their “public money, public code” work might have some ideas? https://fsfe.org/activities/publiccode/publiccode.en.html On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 7:43 AM 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 _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list -- publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to publicpolicy-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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john cummings

3:10 p.m.

Thanks very much Bernd Would it be ok to come back to you once I've got a bit further through the process? Best On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 at 09:13, Bernd Fiedler <bernd.fiedler(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:

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It's helpful to bring the argument "this isn't new" and "it's been done" and "all the cool kids are doing it". In Germany, we have several examples of ministries and bodies having adopted open licenses. It's patchy, however. The UNESCO Commission recommends, uses and promotes materials under free licenses, of course. The ECs policy on licensing is helpful in all the talks that we had: creativecommons.org <https://creativecommons.org/2019/04/02/european-commission-adopts-cc-by-and-cc0-for-sharing-information/> ZDF (public service broadcaster), which also clearly explains the terms of use on its landing page https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/terra-x-creative-commons-cc-100.ht… Federal Agency for Civic Education, e.g. https://www.bpb.de/mediathek/246349/bildungsmaterialien-bereitstellen-und-e…. The Federal Ministry of Economics provides selected graphics under CC BY, as well as all texts on the website (in principle), as noted in the imprint <https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Service/impressum.html>. The National Action Plan <https://www.open-government-deutschland.de/resource/blob/1591050/1705008/6d69cdffffe5d33c6fb97a88049fe300/abschluss-bericht-2019-nap1-data.pdf?download=1> (Final Report of the Federal Government) Open Government appears factually under CC BY 4.0. The German Aerospace Center has been publishing images under CC BY since 2012 Bucerius Law School puts entire lectures and info videos online under free licenses. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research has dedicated an entire campaign to the topic of Creative Commons and Open Access <https://www.bildung-forschung.digital/de/open-access-initiativen-2680.html> . The OER strategy announced in the coalition agreement has just been funded and will be launched before the end of this legislative term. For more than ten years now, the federal government and its subordinate agencies have been using Creative Commons licenses of various types, see this document <https://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/093/1709374.pdf> from 2012 The Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy uses a CC BY-like license, so called "Deutschlandlizenz <https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0>". It's like CC, just not international, so worse. The BBKvirtuell series of the Federal Office of Civil Protection u. Disaster Relief is completely licensed under Creative Commons as far as I can see (CC BY 3.0) The Federal Office for Radiation Protection has already marked videos as Creative Commons on YouTube and is currently checking to what extent other materials are eligible. The Federal Center for Health Education decided on free licenses for the infection protection materials in May, and these are now being successively updated (in the wake of the WMF-WHO Cooperation <https://www.who.int/news/item/22-10-2020-the-world-health-organization-and-wikimedia-foundation-expand-access-to-trusted-information-about-covid-19-on-wikipedia> ) Good luck! Am Di., 8. Juni 2021 um 16:43 Uhr schrieb john cummings < mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>gt;:

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 _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list -- publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to publicpolicy-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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