intellectual property rights_mtsr11

CIP ICT PSP Programme - DILI 250579 Natural Europe

Effie TsiflidouEffie TsiflidouMTSR, MTSR,

Track on Metadata & Semantics for Track on Metadata & Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment Agriculture, Food & Environment

Izmir, Turkey, 2011Izmir, Turkey, 2011

IPR in Environmental & Natural IPR in Environmental & Natural History Collections: History Collections:

a preliminary discussiona preliminary discussion


IntroductionIntroduction

• IPR for Cultural Heritage Collections in IPR for Cultural Heritage Collections in Digital EraDigital Era

• IPR for Environmental & Natural History IPR for Environmental & Natural History CollectionsCollections

• The Natural Europe CaseThe Natural Europe Case• IPR in Natural EuropeIPR in Natural Europe


IPR in Digital Era IPR in Digital Era Cultural InstitutionsCultural Institutions



• How to legally digitize material in which How to legally digitize material in which they might not hold the copyrightthey might not hold the copyright

• How they can ensure that no one else How they can ensure that no one else can use these materials without their can use these materials without their approvalapproval



• IPR in Cultural Heritage CollectionsIPR in Cultural Heritage Collections– Paintings, Books, sculptures, monuments..Paintings, Books, sculptures, monuments..

• IPR in Environmental and Natural IPR in Environmental and Natural History Collections History Collections – Exhibits, animals/plants/fossils.. Natural Exhibits, animals/plants/fossils.. Natural

history materials.. history materials.. – And paintings, books, videos..And paintings, books, videos..


Natural Europe ProjectNatural Europe Project

• Natural History & Environmental Natural History & Environmental Cultural Heritage in European Digital Cultural Heritage in European Digital Libraries for EducationLibraries for Education


Natural Europe ProjectNatural Europe Project

• Connect the digital collections of European Connect the digital collections of European Natural History Museums (NHMs) with Natural History Museums (NHMs) with EuropeanaEuropeana

– Through interoperable systems and metadataThrough interoperable systems and metadata

• Study educational methods and deploy tools Study educational methods and deploy tools that allow educators to design innovative that allow educators to design innovative online pathways through the digital online pathways through the digital collections of NHMscollections of NHMs


NHMs at Natural EuropeNHMs at Natural Europe

• Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM, Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM, Hungary)Hungary)

• Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC, Greece)Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC, Greece)• Natural History Museum of Lisbon (MNHNL, Portugal)Natural History Museum of Lisbon (MNHNL, Portugal)• Estonian Natural History Museum (TNHM, Estonia)Estonian Natural History Museum (TNHM, Estonia)• Jura-Museum Eichstatt (JME, Germany)Jura-Museum Eichstatt (JME, Germany)• Arctic Center (AC, Finland) Arctic Center (AC, Finland)


IPR in Natural EuropeIPR in Natural Europe


Types of Natural History Content Types of Natural History Content

• TextText, like scientific descriptions of animals or , like scientific descriptions of animals or plants; plants;

• ImagesImages, depicting natural history objects (low , depicting natural history objects (low or high resolution); or high resolution);

• VideosVideos and and animationsanimations of natural phenomena of natural phenomena and animals; and animals;

• SoundsSounds of animals; of animals;


Types of Natural History ContentTypes of Natural History Content

• educational pathwayseducational pathways that will be created by that will be created by museum educators or teachersmuseum educators or teachers

• Copyright issues concern also the Copyright issues concern also the metadatametadata provided for the description of the digital provided for the description of the digital content and for the educational pathwayscontent and for the educational pathways


IPR for NE Digital Content IPR for NE Digital Content

• Examining existing IPR schemesExamining existing IPR schemes– Creative Commons Creative Commons – Europeana ClassificationEuropeana Classification

• Discuss on copyright issues with NHM Discuss on copyright issues with NHM partnerspartners– Is commercial use allowed?Is commercial use allowed?– Are modifications allowed?Are modifications allowed?– Is the content public/ free for use?Is the content public/ free for use?



• IPR requirements for Natural Europe:IPR requirements for Natural Europe:– different IPR schemas to contentdifferent IPR schemas to content– most of the provided content under the most of the provided content under the

Creative Commons license Creative Commons license • ““Attribution Non-commercial” (BY-NC)Attribution Non-commercial” (BY-NC)

– occasionally occasionally • under some restrictionsunder some restrictions• NE target users to be able to add suitable data or NE target users to be able to add suitable data or

metadata to the existing objectsmetadata to the existing objects


Creative CommonsCreative Commons

• International non-profit organization International non-profit organization founded in 2001founded in 2001

““..develop a set of licenses that creators could ..develop a set of licenses that creators could use to make their creative material more use to make their creative material more freely usable without giving up their freely usable without giving up their copyright..”copyright..”

((https://creativecommons.org/))


Creative CommonsCreative Commons

• Current Version CC 3.0 Current Version CC 3.0 (February 2007)(February 2007)


The Creative Commons Public The Creative Commons Public Domain MarkDomain Mark


CC Licenses for Natural EuropeCC Licenses for Natural EuropeCC Licenses

BY BY-NC BY-ND BY-NC-ND

BY-SA BY-NC-SA

Con

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t T

ype

Text X Images (law resolution)

X

Images (high resolution)

X

Videos X Sounds X Educational Pathways

X

Met

adat

a Metadata for CHO

X

Metadata for Pathways

X


Europeana IPR issuesEuropeana IPR issues

• Available Rights StatementsAvailable Rights Statements– Public Domain Public Domain – Copyrights held by the data providers or Copyrights held by the data providers or

third partiesthird parties• Copyright StatementCopyright Statement• Creative CommonsCreative Commons

– Copyright status unknown to the provider Copyright status unknown to the provider of the digital objectof the digital object


Europeana IPR issuesEuropeana IPR issues

• Europeana rights statementsEuropeana rights statements

– Rights reserved – free access,Rights reserved – free access,

– Rights Reserved – paid access,Rights Reserved – paid access,

– Rights Reserved – restricted access,Rights Reserved – restricted access,

– Unknown Unknown



• IPR Scheme has been comprised by the IPR Scheme has been comprised by the following schemes: following schemes: – Creative CommonsCreative Commons

• Public MarkPublic Mark

– Europeana Classification Europeana Classification – Copyright Statement (free text)Copyright Statement (free text)


IPR and MetadataIPR and Metadata


IPR for Cultural Heritage ObjectsIPR for Cultural Heritage Objects

• For the indication of the usage and the For the indication of the usage and the access rights to the digital object have access rights to the digital object have been used the elements:been used the elements:– Europeana Rights (Europeana:rights)Europeana Rights (Europeana:rights)– Dublin Core Rights (dc:rights)Dublin Core Rights (dc:rights)– Creative CommonsCreative Commons


IPR for Cultural Heritage ObjectsIPR for Cultural Heritage ObjectsElement name: rights Namespace Dc URI http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights Label Rights Definition Information about rights held in and over the resource. Europeana note Information about intellectual Property Rights, access rights or

license arrangements for the digital object (digitized or born digital).

Obligation & Occurrence Europeana search and display features

Simple search

Facet Timeline Advance search

Full search result display

X X (Rights line)

Example <dc:rights>Copyright © British Library Board, BBC and contributors</dc:rights>


IPR for NE Digital ContentIPR for NE Digital Content

• Copyright StatementCopyright Statement


Element name: rights Namespace Europeana URI http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/ese/rights Label Europeana Rights Definition Information about copyright of the digital object as specified by

isShownBy and isShownAt Europeana note The value is a URL constructed according to the specifications in

the “Rights Guidelines” document on the Technical Requirements page at: http://version1.europeana.eu/web/guest/technical-requirements/ The URLs are constructed by adding a code indicating the copyright status of an object to the domain name where that status is defined. For users of Europeana.eu this copyright information also applies to the preview specified in europeana:object. The rights statement will be represented as a badge on the object page and as a text string in the metadata display. The provision of this element has an obligation level of “recommended” in this version of ESE. It will be changed to “Mandatory” in a later version.

Obligation & Occurrence Europeana search and display features

Simple search

Facet Timeline Advance search

Full search result display

X Example <europeana:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

</europeana:rights>


IPR for metadataIPR for metadata

• All metadata produced by Natural All metadata produced by Natural Europe are characterized under the Europe are characterized under the Creative Commons licensingCreative Commons licensing– Non-Commercial –Non derivatives for CHO Non-Commercial –Non derivatives for CHO

metadata and metadata and – Non-Commercial –Share Alike (NC-SA) for Non-Commercial –Share Alike (NC-SA) for

Educational metadataEducational metadata


Conclusions and Directions for Conclusions and Directions for Future ResearchFuture Research

• Existing IPR schemes have been appliedExisting IPR schemes have been applied

• In accordance to the needs of Natural In accordance to the needs of Natural History digital collectionsHistory digital collections


Conclusions and Directions for Conclusions and Directions for Future ResearchFuture Research

• Flexibility in copyrights for educational Flexibility in copyrights for educational purposes from NHMspurposes from NHMs

• Further explore the potentialities of Further explore the potentialities of Public Mark option Public Mark option – facilitating access to cultural heritage facilitating access to cultural heritage

among general public.among general public.


Thank you!Thank you!

Any Questions?Any Questions?

intellectual property rights_mtsr11

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different ipr schemas

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