18 March 2014) The DPLA has submitted an entry to the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which asks entrants to answer the question: how can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation?
Large-scale collections like the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, Trove, and DigitalNZ are weakened by a lack of common agreement over rights statements, inconsistent international copyright law, and risk aversion among many nonprofit institutions.
DPLA will bring together these international projects to harmonize a simpler rights structure, one that includes ways for works of all types, including materials with unclear or no known rights, to be made available to the public.
Read the announcement with a link to the full proposal here.
