open content licences: don't forget to
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Open Content Licenses: Don’t forget to …
John Stack, Digital Director, Science Museum Group27 January 2016
Why open content licenses?
Alignment with mission
new forms of engagement with content
Improves quality of images in circulation
Is compatible with commercial licensing
Is pragmatic
Why Creative Commons in particular?
Well established
Well established
Human and machine readable
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
Human and machine readable
Is international
Covers the dimensions you’ll (mostly) need
But…
Is irrevocable
Not always compatible with Wikimedia Commons
Won’t handle specific requirements you may have
Complex to mix and match
Not ideal for datasets (consider CC0)
Implementation: The easy bit
Audit where you own the rights
Select a licence (or some licenses)
Implement text on the page (+badge +html)
A not so great example…
A not so great example…
Implementation: The harder bits
A collections search facet
In the IPTC metadata too
Define “attribution”
Define “attribution”
Implementation: The hardest bit
Define “commercial” and “non-commercial”
Define “commercial” and “non-commercial”
Thanks