[Commons-l] [cultural-partners] Writing Public Domain Guidelines

[Liam Wyatt]

Thank you Jean-Fred for creating this page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Usage_guidelines_for_public_domain_works

I've gone ahead and on the basis of Europeana's original
guidelines<http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html>and some
of the comments that have been made so far (on both lists) I've
attempted to fill out this page on Commons with our own PD usage guidelines.
I've summarised it to 6 points:

   - Give attribution
   - Give credit
   - Show respect
   - Share
   - Be aware
   - Preserve

I have also added in the lead... "Importantly, such a guideline is in no way
a legal contract or an attempt to "enclose" the reuse of public domain
works; but would indicate a "polite" way to deal with these works. If these
principles prevents you from improving Wikimedia projects or sharing
cultural heritage, ignore it."

Can I suggest that we take discussions from both cultural-partners-l and
commons-l on this issue to the talkpage:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Usage_guidelines_for_public_domain_works

Sincerely,
-Liam

wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
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