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"David Dawson"

  • David Dawson
  • Senior ICT Adviser
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MLA
  • national development agency for museums, libraries and archives
  • advising government on policy and priorities for the sector.
  • provide strategic leadership
  • act as a powerful advocate
  • develop capacity
  • promote innovation and change.
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Agenda
  • support for licence negotiation with DACS
  • support for promotion of EMII-DCF project
  • Creative Commons UK
  • VIPs
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"European Museums Information Institute"
  • European Museums Information Institute
  • Distributed Content Framework
  • www.emii-dcf.org


  • National Cultural Heritage Agancy, Kulturarvsstyrelsen, Denmark



  • Tate
  • United Kingdom


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EMII-DCF WP2 deliverable
  • IPR licences
  • managing the rights
  • protecting rights
    • technical measures
      • low resolution images,
        encryption, watermarking
  • model licence
    • basis for drawing up agreements for the use of their digital assets
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EMII-DCF Deliverable
  • praised by project reviewers
  • written as a deliverable!!!!
  • support from MINERVA Project to enable the guidance to be distilled and promoted
    • 20 page document in print and on web
  • print version to be distributed across Europe
  • print version to be distributed in UK by mda
    • support the co-operation between mda and MCG

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Creative Commons
  • international approach to licencing
  • actively promoting re-use
  • respects IPR
  • not a threat to commercial re-use
  • can be used for user-generated content
  • referred to in the MINERVA Technical Guidelines
    • in funding agreements for DCF and Renaissance
  • UK launch due real soon …
    • licence for England and Wales
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Alternative formats
  • work commissioned from Rights.com
  • increasing supply of alternative formats for the visually-impaired
  • general support from publishers for supply of digital versions of newly published books
    • needs a ‘trusted’ third party
    • needs a DRM solution to prevent abuse
    • needs to be automated into publishing process
    • PDFs a preferred solution by publishers
      • those generated may not be accessible
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What might this give us?
  • a way of managing risks and controlling costs of rights clearance
  • improving the guidance available across Europe
  • ability to actively promote use of resources in education
  • increasing access of VIPs to new publications
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What next?
  • thoughts welcome
  • interest in EU about ‘public domain’ in the context of the Public Information Directive
  • IPPR / APIG session Digital Rights and Digital Heritage
    • think-tank policy forum
      • Olswang, Music Publishers Association, IBM, BBC Creative Archive and me …
    • over 100 attending, with many senior civil servants, media industry players and MPs
    • what should I tell them we want?
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contact details

  • [email protected]


  • www.mla.gov.uk