As a library we are digitising thousands of books, thesis, etc. mainly
from the public domain but also from the early 20th century with an
uncertain status (out-of-print, orphan works). Surly we do not have any
"copyright" on the digital images we receive from the digitisation
process. But on the other hand we "own" these images. Open access and
Creative Commons are licensing models for "rights owners" - but as I
said, we are definitly not the right owners, we just own the images.
Obviously our interest is that the produced images (and PDFs, eBooks,
etc.) can be used by individual persons for free, but we want to avoid
that commercial benefit is generated by third parties from our images.
Any thoughts on this? Are there any standard models out there which
cover this issue?
Best regards,
Guenter Muehlberger
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Günter Mühlberger, Ph.D.
Department for Digitisation and Digital Preservation
University Innsbruck Library
6020 Innsbruck - Innrain 52 - Austria
Phone: ++43-(0)512-507-8454
Fax: ++43-(0)512-507-9842
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