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[Alek Tarkowski <alek AT creativecommons.pl>]

Dear all,

I've just been told by a POlish librarian working for Europeana Local
that Europeana is considering using CC0 for metadata. THis means of
course, that the mechanism would be pushed to a broad range of digital
libraries in Europe.

Since this will be something that will affect us all, I wonder whether
we shouldn't have a common position on this. My worry relates to the
well known problems with whether CC0 is a valid mechanism in European
legal systems. I know there is the CC BY fallback, , and some reasons to
use a disfunctional mechanism with a functional fallback (to make a
statement with how this should be done, as opposed to can be done) - but
I still feel uneasy with this solution, if we'll de facto end up using
CC BY for metadata, why not just license it with CC BY? It's a quite
confusing construction in an already esoteric field of metadata licensing.

Paul, I assume you might know a lot about this, I'd be happy to learn
what you think.

And grateful for any other thoughts.

As a side note, in Poland we haven't implemented CC0 for abovementioned
reasons - anyone else has the same problem? Or even better, anyone has
found a working solution for this, a way to think about CC0 in their
jurisdiction?

Cheers,

Alek

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dr Alek Tarkowski
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Creative Commons Polska / Poland
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