[Dspace-general] Re: [Dspace-tech] License agreement for each item

[mao ni]

Thanks for your detailed reply, MacKenzie.
It will be great if DSpace will implement the Creative Commons. We could 
customize the DSpace retrieving procedure if it doesn't have bitstream 
control based on license.

Happy New Year!

Mao


--On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:27 PM -0500 MacKenzie Smith 
<kenzie at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi Mao,
>
> MIT is about to implement something like this for our own use. We will
> split the current submission license into two parts: a "DSpace license"
> that governs what we (the Libraries managing DSpace) can do with the item
> as its steward, and a separate "use license" to govern what the
> author/submitter wants to allow the public (or whoever can access the
> item) to do with it. For the former we'll use a fixed license that looks
> pretty much like the one in DSpace now, and for the latter we'll offer
> some of the Creative Commons licenses. I've attached a draft of what our
> UI screen might look like, and we're hoping to do the necessary
> programming in the next two months.
>
> If this is something of general interest we'd be happy to think about
> adding it to the open source system later on... just let us know. And on
> a related note, a Creative Commons representative will be coming to the
> DSpace user group meeting on March 10-11 to answer questions about their
> status and plans for the coming year -- for example, I know they've been
> tweaking their base license to address institutional concerns about
> liability and so on. Should be interesting!
>
> As for enforcement by DSpace -- the system administrator can set access
> control for items as necessary (at the bitstream, item, or collection
> level) and these are enforced using whatever authentication/authorization
> method you've implemented (logon/password, digital certificates, LDAP,
> etc.). But *use* licenses -- those that govern what a particular user is
> allowed to do with an item once they have it -- aren't really enforceable
> without implementing nasty encryption techniques which get in the way of
> fair use. At MIT we've decided to rely on copyright law and licenses like
> the Creative Commons for use of our material, and to let the courts
> enforce them if that ever proves necessary.
>
> I hope this answers your question!
>
> MacKenzie
>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:00:48 -0500
>> From: mao ni <maoni at email.unc.edu>
>> To: DSpace <dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: [Dspace-tech] License agreement for each item
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Happy Holidays!
>>
>> Our E-thesis collection wants to apply flexible rights administration
>> for  each item, that is, every submitter could choose one from a set of
>> license  agreements like Creative Commons. For example, an author might
>> limit his  item to non-commercial use only.
>> In this case, it is convenient for authors to pick up the license they
>> want instead of the same license agreement for the whole collection.
>> I have done this by storing the DC copyrights metadata with each item.
>> My question is that if DSpace has implemented the rights limitation or
>> not  when the bitstream of the item is going to be viewed? For example,
>> if the  license of the item is not allowed to be viewed yet, will DSpace
>> disallow  the bitstream to be accessed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mao
>>
>> School of Information and Library Science
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>> Email: maoni at ils.unc.edu
>> Tel: (919) 962 - 0184
>
>
> MacKenzie Smith
> Associate Director for Technology
> MIT Libraries
> Building 14S-208
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
> Cambridge, MA  02139
> (617)253-8184
> kenzie at mit.edu