Copyfraud in der Europeana

Wer hat ernsthaft angenommen, dass die Europeana Public Domain Charter mehr als ein heuchlerisches Lippenbekenntnis ist?

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6290825

Einem Teil der Metadaten wurden nun Links zu “Europeana Rights” hinzugefügt, unter anderem einem Druck von 1823, der natürlich Public Domain ist, wobei das auch für das Digitalisat gelten sollte (gemäß der Charter und europäischem Urheberrecht, das kein Schutzrecht für originalgetreue Reproduktionen vorsieht):

Letters of Polish king Jan III written to queen Marie Casimire during the Vienna expedition in 1683

Verlinkt wird aber Rights Reserved:

“This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. This item is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by the organization giving access to it.

Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to make any of the acts permitted by your national copyright and related rights act, including browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes.

All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions attached to the work.”
http://europeana.eu/portal/rr-f.html

Indem die Europeana selbst jegliche Form kommerziellen Gebrauchs in ihren Terms of use (niederländischem Recht unterliegend) verbietet. macht sie deutlich, dass es ihr nicht um Public Domain geht:

http://europeana.eu/portal/termsofservice.html

Update:

Jonathan Purday schrieb mir:

“Many thanks for your email. I’m afraid it’s not one that I am really in
a position to answer; you would have to ask the originating organisation
that question. Europeana makes no decisions about rights whatsoever:
those who submit data about their content make the decisions about the
rights information. Europeana simply displays the information provided.

We do, however, recommend that material that is in the public domain
before digitisation should remain in the public domain after
digitisation. The Charter makes recommendations, but it is not a
contract with our data providers. They are autonomous organisations, at
liberty to make their own assessments of rights.
You will find it useful to read the Public Domain Charter that we
published last year:
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/publications

I hope this helps explain the situation.”

Diese Antwort ist irreführend. Die Aussage, dass ein digitales Objekt rechtlich geschützt ist, ist eine Tatsachenbehauptung, die auf der zitierten Seite von der Europeana und niemandem sonst aufgestellt wird.

Natürlich sieht die Europeana das anders:

“That is data supplied by the provider, not by Europeana.
If a data provider chooses to assert a right that you might question, you are at liberty to do so.
But your case is best taken up with the provider, not with Europeana as the intermediary.

I’m not in a position to comment further on this question: I’ve done my best to explain Europeana’s position.”

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