Let’s open up the public domain!
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"[W]e should help to rally existing stakeholders from around the world behind a simple vision, and encourage them to work together to realise it.... this has two main parts: [1] Gathering open information (‘metadata’) about every public domain work in the world – including books, recordings, films, paintings, photographs, and so on. In practise this means opening up existing collections of metadata from galleries, libraries, archives and museums – and combining this with information from other sources (e.g. DBpedia, crowdsourced data) to make sure it is complete and accurate. [2] Publishing an open digital copy of every public domain work in the world. Which means encouraging existing publishers to publish digital copies of works in a way which means that everyone is free to reuse them (i.e. trying to discourage copyfraud and legal/technical restrictions on reuse)...."