Re: AW: [rda-legalinterop-ig] Are we having a telco today?

HI Bob
If you are interested in us giving a talk about images as data, we would be willing to prepare one.
The issue: scientific illustrations play increasingly a role in science. Hundreds of millions of USD are spend in digitizing natural history collections, citizen scientists contribute millions of images every month about organisms and algorithms become widespread - as standard tools provided by Google and Apple - that allow identification of organisms. This is only doable becausedigital images exist, accessible or not. If scientists do want to keep control over this novel resource, it is clear that the legal issue need be addressed. We recently submitted a paper to PLoS Biology that addresses this question: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/11/087015
Please let us know
Donat
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BTW, everyone, the session proposal for Barcelona is online at:
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rd-...
Suggestions still welcome, esp. If someone wants to give one of the proposed talks.
Cheers, Bob
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Hi - you may want to take a look at http://rightsstatements.org/en/. I am
part of the working group that prepared them.
It is an effort by the DPLA in the US and Europeana to provide a standard
set of rights statements as descriptions of the rights status for images of
works in cultural collections (it could apply beyond images of course).
These are linked to stable URI and are meant to facilitate access, reuse as
appropriate, and so forth. The accompanying white paper discusses the
position that users should not apply a 'new' assertion of copyright in the
digital reproduction of an otherwise public domain artifact. We take this
position as a matter of practice so that researchers and cultural
institutions stop inadvertently contributing to their own problems.
Art photography is analogous to medical and scientific images in that they
are all produced to be as similar as possible to the original - they are
not meant to be creative in and of themselves even if there is skill and
cost involved in producing the intermediary image.
The 'rightsstatements' as descriptors (they are not licenses like Creative
Commons) are an effort to tackle some of these concerns. I don't know if
they would translate to data science, but I don't see why not. Thoughts are
welcome to me directly if you like.
Warmly, Melissa Levine