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?

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;gt;: -- Bernd Fiedler Projektmanager Politik Project Manager Public Policy Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Mobil 0151 25 31 17 09 Büro (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Hier finden Sie unseren neuen Newsletter <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>! Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list -- publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to publicpolicy-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org