My reaction to this report is tears, because it is terrible : they use the keyword "public domain" only once, talking about a set of 4500 American Library of Congress pictures on Flickr (1), only to contradict it a few lines below when they talk about "rights holder" for the works by Ingres (2), a painter who died more than 70 years ago. French GLAM administrators live in old castles like the Louvre which were built during the Monarchy, before 1789, and they have kept the mentality of that era. Their idea of government is to increase the King's properties and benefits. Despite their claim to the contrary, they ignore the interest of the public.
See also page 19 (3) the connection they make between "libre de droits" (a very polysemic wording which can mean anything from public domain, to royalty free, or even free licenced) and "non commerciale" (and they say they have a lawyer among their editorial team!). Not even once do they hint that commercial use is allowed when a work is in the Public Domain. (1) recommandation n°1 page 17 (pdf OCR version page 12) (2) recommandation n°2 page 18 (pdf OCR version page 13) (that part is translated into English in the message forwarded by Kat Walsh 2009-09-22) (3) recommandation n°3 page 19 (pdf OCR version page 14) pdf OCR version: http://david.monniaux.free.fr/pdf/rapport_culture_ocr.pdf 2009/9/22, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com>: > Well done! > > That sounds like the most constructive engagement any part of the > overall project has had on opening up large swaths of external > content, that I can recall. > > Congratulations to everyone involved in France. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l