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[Paul Keller <pk AT kl.nl>]

Hi Alex and all, 
i can give a lot of background information on this (this is something that we 
are working on with europeana), but i will be offline for the rest of today 
so i wont be able to do so before tomorrow... /paul 

On 8 Mar 2011, at 11:13, Alek Tarkowski wrote:

> 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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> Creative Commons Polska / Poland
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