1. Rightsstatements.org Emily Gore - DPLA - EGORE@DP.lA - @ncsChistory
Dave Hansen - UNC -
-introduction
-int’l collaboration for creating standard for communicating copyright status of items in digital collections
-started in 2014
Rightsstatements.org

3. just some of the hubs contributing content to DPLA

5. DPLA by the numbers Nearly 14 million records
29 Hubs + 11 in development
2100+ contributing institutions
9 major metadata schemas (not all XML)
DPLA Metadata Application Profile (DPLA MAP) requires a Rights Statement - and there are A LOT of them (likely ~100,000 different ones)
More words in the rights statement field than any other field

7. Text

9. copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

10. Launched April 2016 -Launched at DPLAfest in 2016
-Beginning implementation with hubs - starting with NYPL
In consultation with

12. Design Principles Simple Flexible Descriptive Accurate Transparent
Rights White Paper
simple - not complicated; easy to understand and apply
-captures situations commonly encountered
-descriptive; meaning it describes status, doesn’t comment explicitly on how it is being used (e.g., fair use)
-accurate; covers situations that actually exist (even if we wish they didn’t ), such as license restrictions on public domain material
-transparent (same ;allows for recognizing those situations)

13. NOT SIMPLE

14. Not accurate (or at least misleading)

15. not accurate; digital image copyright

17. IN COPYRIGHT WORKS Start with In Copyright
1. In Copyright is exactly what it sounds like—item is in copyright
2. Indicates that the Item has been identified as an ‘Orphan Work’ under the terms of the EU Orphan Works Directive. Targeted towards institutions that can use the directive
Indicates that the Item has been identified as in copyright, but its rights­holder(s) either cannot be identified or cannot be located. Generally, orphan works in countries other than those covered by EU directive. In other words, not in the US.
3. In Copyright - Rightsholders Unlocatable or Unidentifiable. US orphan works
4. Indicates that the Item is in copyright but that educational use is allowed without the need to obtain additional permission. Likely in situations where rights holder has permitted institution to allow users to make educational uses
5. Indicates that the Item is in copyright but that non­commercial use is allowed without the need to obtain additional permission. Again, likely because rights holder has given institution to make item available to others for noncommercial uses

18. OUT OF COPYRIGHT WORKS
1. Indicates that the Work is in the Public Domain, but the organization that has published the Work is contractually required to allow only non­commercial use by third parties. Usually part of projects like Google Books in the EU
2. Indicates that the underlying Work is in the Public Domain, but the organization that has published the Item is contractually required to restrict certain forms of use by third parties. Usually because of donor agreements or digitization agreements
3. Indicates that the underlying Work is in the Public Domain, but that there are known restrictions imposed by laws other than copyright on the use of the Item by third parties. Again, targeted at institutions outside US who have laws that protect traditional cultural expressions
4. No Copyright - US. Indicates that the work is in the public domain at least under the laws of the US

19. UNDETERMINED
1. Indicates that the data provider believes that no copyright or related rights are known to exist for the Item, but that a conclusive determination could not be made. In the US, this is particularly useful for archival collections with material where publication status isn’t clear
2. Indicates that the data provider has not evaluated the copyright and related rights status of the Item.
3. Copyright Undetermined. For use when copyright investigated but could not be determined.

20. RIGHTS STATEMENTS + CREATIVE COMMONS
rightsstatments are NOT licenses; just state status
-don’t legally grant permission to do anything; just describe
So where does CC fit in here?
Statements are supposed to live in parallel with CC statements
But CC licenses applied by rightsholder
In most cases, not institution making available

21. RIGHTS STATEMENTS + CREATIVE COMMONS
Even the public domain tools will be accepted as valid rights statements
We’ll talk later about the differences between the Public Domain Mark and the other No Copyright flavors

22. http://quod. lib. umich. edu/c/crmstoolkit/images/14616082. 0001. 001

23. https://www. law. berkeley

24. ADDITIONAL NOTICES No Warranties Other Rights Additional Information
...to keep the lawyers happy…
No warranties--Institution doesn’t make any warranties about its statements so that if institution gets its wrong, not going to suffer legal consequences
Other Rights--There may be other rights implicated by your use, including rights of privacy, publicity, moral rights and trademark rights
Additional information about the rights status may be found on contributor site
But at no time should the additional info conflict with the rights statement

25. Example of statement URI for In Copyright.
Each of these rights statements will be expressed as a URI on Rights Statements
both human and machine readable

26. Implementation Guidelines FOR DPLA NETWORK (1)
DPLA recently issued Implementation Guidelines for our network
URIs will allow us to easily populate the display with data from the linked data endpoint. If URIs are included, no other information is needed by DPLA
Data included in a distinct field means we can easily find it. This means it is in:
a property not used by any other data, or
a specific instance of a property that is used multiple times (i.e. first or last)

27. Implementation Guidelines FOR DPLA NETWORK (2)
If you are using CC licenses instead of a standardized rights statement they will be handled the same way URIs are.
Use EITHER a CC license of a Rights Statement, but not BOTH
We can still handle local rights statements, however these CAN’T contradict standardized rights statement.

28. IMpLEMENTATION EXPECTATIONS (1)
We realize that adoption will take awhile and our implementation guidelines may have to change depending on our network needs/system complications
We are beginning local trainings this summer to assist our hubs’ contributing institutions in selecting and applying accurate rights statements for their digital objects
Some hubs are capable of taking this on themselves while others need more assistance

29. IMPLEMENTATION EXPECTATIONS (2)
We hope to have RightsStatements.org statements live late summer in DPLA from New York Public Library. They are replacing their current statements with the standardized statements available at RightsStatements.org
We expect that others will want to implement these statements that are not currently part of the DPLA or Europeana network, and while this is encouraged, we only currently providing implementation support to our networks

30. Future Governance
Meeting in September between Europeana and DPLA leadership to finalize governance structure
Governance will be lightweight and will deal with changes to the statements, funding the organization and expanding the organization to include other National aggregators/digital libraries who want to join
Current project funding, outside of grant from Knight Foundation, comes from Europeana and DPLA.

31. Working Group Leaders Paul Keller (co-chair) - Kennisland/Europeana
Emily Gore (co-chair) - DPLA
Subgroups
Mark Matienzo (technical co-chair) - DPLA
Antoine Issac (technical co-chair) - Europeana
Dave Hansen (statements co-chair) - UNC/DPLA
Julia Fallon (statements co-chair) - Europeana

32. Working Group Members Greg Cram - NYPL/DPLA
Melissa Levine - UMich/DPLA
Tom Johnson - DPLA
Amy Rudersdorf - DPLA
Karen Estlund - PennState/DPLA
Richard Urban - FSU/DPLA
Maarten Zeinstra - Kennisland/Europeana
Patrick Peiffer - BNL/Europeana
Lucie Guibault - Institute Info Law/Europeana
Marie-Claire Dangerfield - Europeana
Diane Peters - Creative Commons
Matt Lee - Creative Commons

33. Funding for this project generously provided by the