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Session 9. Copyright and Open Access for Digital Cultural Heritage
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018, 16h00 (UK time)
Session coordinator: Gabriel Bodard (University of London), Emma Payne (King's College London), Andrea Wallace (Exeter)
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/esoKjJgDx4Y
Slides:
The seminar will start discussing the various copyright considerations that must be taken into account during the digitisation of material collections and outlining the various layers of restrictions which might arise during user engagement with digital surrogates. We will then talk, more in detail, about the publication of images and interpretation of the terms ‘fair dealing’ and ‘commercial’ vs ‘non-commercial’.
In the second part of the session, we shall discuss the value of open access licenses and the open source software model for digital cutural heritage scholarship, with particular reference to the importance of open data and reproducible methods in open scholarship. Last, we will present a short case study on a digital imaging project, highlighting issues of copyright, open access, and archiving.
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G. Petri (2014). "The Public Domain vs. the Museum: The Limits of Copyright and Reproductions of Two-dimensional Works of Art." Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies 12(1), Art. 8. Available: http://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.1021217
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G. Bodard & J. Garcés, "Open Source Critical Editions: A Rationale." In M. Deegan & K. Sutherland, Text Editing, Print, and the Digital World (Ashgate Press, 2009), pp. 84-98. Available: http://www.stoa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Bodard-Garces_2009_Open-source-digital-editions.pdf
- A. Wallace & R. Deazley, “Introduction” and “Exhibition Methodology” (27 pp.), Display At Your Own Risk: An experimental exhibition of digital cultural heritage, 2016. https://displayatyourownrisk.org/publications/
- S. Katyal, “Can technoheritage be owned?” https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/04/30/kaytal/jUr7WJ5XdIUm5yLLB7HGFP/story.html
- K. Hamma, “Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility.” http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/hamma/11hamma.html
- R. Tushnet, "Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law." Georgetown Law Faculty Working Papers. Paper 148 (2012). Available: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/fwps_papers/148
- Free Academic Images ("They want you to use them") https://academicimages.wordpress.com/
- Open Context: web-based research data publishing https://opencontext.org/
- Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/
- P. Gerstenblith, “Technology Cultural Heritage Preservation.” https://displayatyourownrisk.org/gerstenblith/
- J. Pekel, “Democratising the Rijksmuseum.” https://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Democratising%20the%20Rijksmuseum.pdf
- House of Lord’s debate 12 September 2018 on image fees (starts mid-sentence): https://goo.gl/WijRK5
(1) Compare the copyright information available for these digital projects. How easy is to retrieve such information? How clear are the terms and conditions? What they allow, and what they encourage, the users to do with their material? How does the copyright status of the digital documents affect the "ethos" of the project?
Case studies:
- ArtUK vs Open Inheritance Art (The OIA website seems to be currently down. If problem persists, please look for information about the project online)
- Virtual World Heritage Laboratory vs Bridgeman Images & Italian Ministry of Culture Agreement
- The Nefertiti Hack. Is it a hoax?
- Feel free to look at further examples. You may find useful to consult this list: A. Wallace & D. McCarthy "Survey of GLAM open access policy and practice [2.0].” with explanation here
(2) With reference to your own work, whether assessments for this course or in other digital cultural heritage projects, consider the intellectual property and licensing implications of (a) data, software or other materials you use or re-use, and (b) the outputs, tools, practices and results you are going to publish. How would you go about making your work reproducible by others, as required by Open Science principles?