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Kevin SmithHathiTrust Rights & Access Working Group & DPN Succession Rights

Working Group

Elaine WestbrooksChair, HathiTrust Rights & Access Working Group

Debra Haken KurtzTexas Digital Library, Executive Director

Emily GoreDPLA, Director for Content

Rights & Access Challenges for Digital Libraries & Repositories

CNI – December 9, 2014

Rights and Access in Large-scale Digital Repositories

The general legal framework

Kevin Smith

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Two different situations

• We do not know / cannot find a rights holder:– Preservation & access treated together

• Copyright analysis

• We know who the rights holder is:– Licensing for preservation– Licensing for access

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Copyright Issues

• Public domain works– HathiTrust & the CRMS project

• Fair use– Orphan works analysis is instance of fair use

consideration– Difference between preservation only and access?

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Licensing• For preservation only:

– Copying, mirror sites, reformatting• Would we ask rights holder for this?• Who else?

• For access:– Immediate

• What benefit to rights holder?

– Conditional• Triggering conditions for access?

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DPN

• Succession Rights working group– Focused on licensing between depositor and

repository, and repository and DPN.• May not be engaged with rights holder• Stress on agreements needed for long-term

preservation• Access granted upon occurrence of trigger conditions

– To whom? Depend on who had access to the originals.

HathiTrust: Managing Rights for Access

Elaine L. Westbrooks

Overview

• Rights & Access Working Group• Emerging Activity• Challenges• Next Steps

HT Rights & Access

• Reports to HT Program Steering Committee• Created in August 2014• Liaises with:

– HT Collections Committee– HT Print Monographs Archive Planning Task Force– Copyright Review Management System (CRMS)

HT Rights & Access Working Group

To promote HathiTrust's ability to provide the widest possible access to its collections within

the law by establishing priorities for rights determinations and strategies for engagement

with rights holders.

Copyright Status Determinations

• CRMS - IMLS Funded since 2008• Moving CRMS beyond Michigan?• Benefits go beyond HathiTrust• What would it take to make this complex

process sustainable?– Constraints– Legal component– Metadata component; Authority control

Moving toward prospective content

• Devote more energies towards attracting open content

• Lower barriers• Develop strategies to consistently support

ingest• What current models exist?

Texas Digital Library

Debra Hanken Kurtz

Who we are

The Texas Digital Library is a consortium of libraries that works together to support greater access to the riches of Texas academic institutions.

Thesis & Dissertation

publishing

• Open Source

• Manage submissions

• Publish to repository

• Flexible embargos

• Student maintains copyright

• Local institutional control

DuraCloud™@TDL

Data Management

Photo by Stan Leary. University of Georgia: Griffin Campus: Research. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugacommunications/6253840479/. CC BY-NC 2.0

Goals:– ensure compliance with

federal funding agency requirements

– promote the reuse of results sets by researchers across disciplines

The Trouble With Rights Statements From An Aggregator’s Point of View

CNI8-9 Dec 2014

Emily Gore emily@dp.la@ncschistory

Statement of Problem

• There is currently no way to express all of our Digital Object Rights Statements in a standardized way.

• As a result, our digital repositories often use boilerplate text and/or statements that are not actionable in any way.

• Wide variety of statements makes re/use unclear for end user. In an aggregation, this is even more unclear.

• Currently there are over 87,000 unique Rights Statements found in the DPLA aggregation of 8.4 Million records (see visualization next slide)

DPLA Rights Statements

Visualization by Dean Farrell (http://deanfarr.com/viz/rights.php)

Further DPLA analysis

Very informal analysis based on rights statements from 6 Service Hubs (~1.36 million objects)

45%

25%

8%7%

7%5%3% Copyright or "All Rights Reserved"OtherGoverment DocumentsMissing Rights Statement

Europeana Rights Over Time

Image credit: Kennisland (CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Europeana Rights Statements

• Public Domain Mark

• Out of Copyright: Non-commercial Reuse *

• Free access - no reuse ^

• Paid access - no reuse ^

• Orphan work (EU) *

• Unknown ^

• Creative Commons CC0

• Creative Commons - Attribution (CC-BY)

• Creative Commons -

Attribution, ShareAlike (BY-SA)

• Creative Commons - Attribution, No Derivatives (BY-ND)

• Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

• Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA)

• Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

http://pro.europeana.eu/available-rights-statements

A Way Forward

Image credit: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

• Paul Keller (co-chair, Kennisland)

• Marie-Claire Dangerfield (Europeana)

• Julia Fallon (Europeana)

• Ranu Gayadin (Europeana)

• Lucie Guibault (Inst. for Information Law)

• Antoine Isaac (Europeana)

• Lyubomir Kamenov (Europeana)

• Patrick Peiffer (B.N. Luxembourg)

• Joris Pekel (Europeana)

• Henning Scholz (Europeana)

• Maarten Zeinstra (Kennisland)

• Emily Gore (co-chair, DPLA)

• Greg Cram (New York Public Library)

• Karen Estlund (University of Oregon)

• Dave Hansen (University of North Carolina)

• Matt Lee (Creative Commons)

• Melissa Levine (University of Michigan)

• Mark Matienzo (DPLA)

• Diane Peters (Creative Commons)

• Amy Rudersdorf (DPLA)

• Richard Urban (Florida State University)

Working Group Contributors

Subgroups

• Rights Statements Rights Statements - creating categories & text for rights statements, building off of Europeana’s work

• Governance - exploring options for sustaining, updating statements, including being open for other national CH aggregators to join the effort

• Technology - developing requirements for the infrastructure and data model of rights statements developed as part of this framework, including the ability to provide dereferenceable linked data representations of the statements, and support for multilingual expressions of the text of rights statements.

What You Can Do

• Comment on forthcoming white papers from each subgroup, to be released in early 2015

• Once the framework is established, work with your digital collections and/or those of your partners to implement

• DPLA’s plan for implementation will utilize Hubs Network to train the current 1,300+ DPLA contributing institutions

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Kevin SmithDirector, Copyright and Scholarly Communication Duke

University kevin.l.smith@duke.edu

Elaine WestbrooksAUL for Research, University of Michigan

ewestbrk@umich.edu

Debra Hanken KurtzExecutive Director, Texas Digital Library

d.kurtz@austin.utexas.edu

Emily GoreDirector for Content, DPLA

emily@dp.la