[cc-community] Chilean Library of Congress license CC
Jon Phillips
jon at creativecommons.org
Fri Jan 26 16:35:52 EST 2007
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 16:07 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 03:58 pm, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:46 -0800, Mia Garlick wrote:
> > > um, i think section 105 of the US Copyright Act has actually done
> > > that and more for you jon http://www.copyright.gov/
> > > title17/92chap1.html#105.
> > >
> > > there is no copyright recognized under US law for US federal
> > > government works.
> > >
> > > hence the US Library of Congress' statement re: the fact that "As a
> > > publicly supported U.S. Government institution, the Library generally
> > > does not own rights in its collections and what is posted on its Web
> > > site."
> > > http://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html#link
> >
> > Oh yeah, that is right ;) hahaha Too fast to post ;) Now, I'm
> > embarrased ;)
> >
> > Ok, I'll think more ambitiously: if we could get the content that the US
> > Library of Congress houses made by non-US government entities under a CC
> > license or into the public domain, that is under too restrictive
> > rules :)
>
> Just putting up a web page listing the content that they have that is already
> in the public domain would be a hugh help.
Wikipedia has a big section on public domain and why not start with
collecting there? And, or, start your own collection...I've personally
been involved with collecting much info on the
http://openclipart.org/wiki about pd art content.
Would you be interested in working on something like this?
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > > On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 17:33 -0300, Claudio Ruiz wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >> It's a great pleasure for me to tell all of you that the Chilean
> > > >> Library
> > > >> of Congress (http://www.bcn.cl) has released all his content with a
> > > >> Creative Commons license (CC- by-nc-sa).
>
> Can you explain this? All the content in the library? Or all the content for
> which the library holds the copyright?
I believe it is the content the library generates and not the content
they track (similar to US LoC). Claudio though, could you clarify
this...it is a good thing to clarify.
Jon
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