Dear Gunter
On a closely related matter, I have long held the view that we should
be asking the same kinds of questions about metadata. The issue came
to the fore many years ago when I worked for an Arts organisation in
Australia where we were conducting a valuation of our assets. I recall
writing a paper on how to value metadata which was (of course)
critical to delivering the services that had been built on top of our
collection. Indeed, inseparable from the management of the collection
itself. Some of the (quite expensive) digital art works were nothing
more than metadata. Considerable time and effort was spend developing
rich and authoritative metadata not only for works that we 'owned' but
for works that belonged to others.
Several matters associated with images of text or digital surrogates
have long been difficult and thorny. I myself have 'marked up' the
text (after scanning and OCRing) of an out-of-print book (Strehlow's
Songs of Central Australia) that will never be republished (due to
cultural sensitivity). It has taken me more than 5 years to do this -
still not quite finished. The markup provides a level of annotation
and navigable access that never existed in its original printed form.
However, the question of who owns this marked-up version prevents me
from making it freely available on-line. This is sad because it one of
Australia's most important texts.
As best I remember, your question was first raised by Michael Lesk in
1995. Good luck with your quest. Perhaps there are members on the list
that can share their wisdom and experience.
Best wishes
Simon
On Nov 5, 2007 9:33 AM, Günter Mühlberger
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> 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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> Department for Digitisation and Digital Preservation
> University Innsbruck Library
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