<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thank, Stevie!<br><br></div>With the IP Observatory finally starting to work on the Public Domain Economic Contribution Study, it seems like we'll have a good number of scientific reports on this topic soon. <br><br></div>By the way, I am trying to gather everything here:<br><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Documentation#Studies_by_Other_Parties">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Documentation#Studies_by_Other_Parties</a><br><br></div>Dimi<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-02-23 11:30 GMT+01:00 Stevie Benton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Please see the below. The UK's Intellectual Property Office has commissioned a study into the value of the public domain. As Andrew highlights in his email, Wikipedia comes out of it rather well...</div><div><br></div><div>I'm going to read the whole report when I have time but this will certainly strengthen our case for PDGov. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br>Stevie</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Gray</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk" target="_blank">andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk</a>></span><br>Date: 23 February 2015 at 09:36<br>Subject: [cultural-partners] Economic value of the public domain<br>To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <<a href="mailto:cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch" target="_blank">cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch</a>><br><br><br>A recurrent topic, this one. A new UK study has appeared:<br>
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<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/14975/files/CREATe-Working-Paper-2015-01.pdf" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/record/14975/files/CREATe-Working-Paper-2015-01.pdf</a><br>
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"The overall purpose of the project was 1) to map the size of the<br>
public domain and frequency of its use; 2) analyse the role of public<br>
domain works in value creation for UK businesses; 3) assist creators<br>
and entrepreneurs to identify business models that benefit from the<br>
public domain." ...<br>
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Interestingly, it seems to duplicate the recent work done looking at<br>
images on Wikipedia as an example of this:<br>
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"Using commercially equivalent licence fees obtained from Corbis and<br>
Getty for images relating to the biographical sample, we estimate a<br>
total value of USD $208 million (GBP £138 million) per year for the<br>
1,983,609 English-language Wikipedia pages in appropriate categories<br>
which contain public domain images."<br>
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- Andrew Gray<br>
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