Rights statements

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RightsStatements.org is an initiative of europeana and DPLA and currently provides 12 different rights notices that can be used by cultural heritage institutions to show the general public the copyright protection and re-use status of digital objects for which the cultural heritage institutions do not have their own rights to the works shown and which, as a result, can be shown on the Internet by the cultural heritage institutions, but without the users being able to be granted further rights. The rights notices were developed with a view to both people and (search) machines and are made available as linked data . Each legal notice can be found with a unique URI .

The rights notices were specially developed for the needs of cultural heritage institutions and cultural heritage platform operators (such as the German Digital Library ) and are not intended for private individuals to license their own works. For licensing your own works, see the Creative Commons license model .

motivation

Europeana , DPLA and many other libraries, archives and heritage institutions believe that everyone should be empowered to creatively engage with cultural heritage online, even if the heritage institutions that provide digital objects do not grant usage rights to them Can grant free licenses because they have no rights to the digitized works. To achieve this, various cultural heritage institutions are working together on standardized notices that clearly and understandably tell users what they are allowed to do and what not. Prior to the Rights Statements initiative, there was no global approach to rights notices, resulting in confusing diversity. The DPLA, for example, had 87,000 different statements on the legal status in the catalog. The simplification and standardization of the use and application of legal notices benefits everyone: both the cultural institutions and, above all, the users, who receive significantly more legal clarity and clarity with regard to freedom of use.

Rights notices

Rights Statements icon for works protected by copyright
Icon of Rights Statements for works that are no longer protected by copyright
Icon of Rights Statements for works whose copyright status is unclear.

There are three different categories of rights notices: notices for works that are protected by copyright, notices for works that are not protected by copyright, and notices for works whose copyright protection is unclear. The notes provide users with easy-to-understand and standardized information about copyright protection and the status of further use of the digital objects.

literature

  • Online publication coming out: Euler, Ellen, legal clarity for (picture) users: Creative Commons Licenses & International Rights Statements, in: DNB-themed booklet on license information and rights documentation in practice 2018
  • Ellen Euler: RightsStatements.org - Internationally standardized legal notices for digital cultural heritage, workshop with exercises on the application of rights statements, November 2017, doi : 10.5281 / zenodo.1403435

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Fallon: About the Consortium of Rights Statements and Mission Statement. europeana, March 13, 2018, accessed on August 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rights Statements Working Group, Emily Gore; Paul Keller et al .: RightsStatements.org White Paper - Recommendations for Standardized International Rights Statements. International Rights Statements Working Group, October 2015 (last updated November 2017), November 2017, accessed on August 23, 2018 .