Licensing petitions

This space is for listing people, organizations, and content collections that would be awesome to see under open licenses or in the public domain, either as an entire bundle of content or as a "token" open-content piece for publicity/encouragement reasons. It would likely make sense to work with creative commons groups on this list.

Entire collections

This is for specific materials or bodies of content that would be great to have, and which we want to ask the current copyright holders to release into the public domain or under an open license.

CD3WD

They have expressed interest in sharing their materials with us, but the licenses involved aren't all clear.

Kunst der Fuge

Already free content, but need to pay to download - 50 euros. can we get a donation?

Bartleby

They take public domain material, post it on the web and apply a new copyright on the on-line edition.

Might be worth speaking to Dover editions (for-profit print publisher of public domain materials).

Boston Museum of Science

Carol Lerche posted to the Library list:

If someone at OLPC Bat Central knows functionaries at the Boston Museum of Science, it would be great to talk them into making an electronic version of these books (http://www.eiestore.com/storybooks.html) available under an appropriate license. They are already multi-cultural...with a little translation magic, they would be great resources for the OLPC library.

General publicity

This is for "famous" artists, authors, musicians, etc. who probably can't contribute their entire bodies of work, but who could bring a lot of great publicity to the project if they could release one or more works into the public domain.

• Lee-Hom Wang
• Stephen Merritt

UN Publications

A number of excellent publications from UN agencies (including Food and Agriculture Organization) have copyright statements like this. It would be helpful to get an opinion on whether this constitutes a suitable license for OLCP use. Cjl 00:22, 6 June 2008 (EDT)

All rights reserved. Reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product for educational or other noncommercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of material in this information product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the copyright holders. Applications for such permission should be addressed to the Chief, Publishing Management Service, Information Division, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy or by e-mail to copyright@fao.org © FAO 2005

One likely usage case would be to take a UN-prepared PDF, refactor it for internationalization (say as HTML and broken out Pootle strings), thus producing a "derivative work" that can be readily localized. Is prior contact with the UN agency needed to perform such a derivativization or is it acceptable to do so under their terms per the first sentence of their copyright notice? Would it be appropriate to apply a CC-BY license to the derivative work, would it be necessary to apply a CC-BY-NC license?