IPR frameworks to be tested!
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) PerSpectIves blog has announced the launch of an Intellectual Property Rights Frameworks pilot project.
The PerSpectIves announcement states:
“The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling for public sector organisations planning to commission a digital media project in early 2010 to get involved in a cutting-edge pilot project.
Together with their partners, NESTA has developed six Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Frameworks, designed to offer more flexibility to public organisations looking to procure digital media.
The aim of the pilot is to test these frameworks across different types of public organisations and digital media commissions and evaluate the effectiveness of the frameworks.
The pilot is targeted at public organisations looking to commission new digital media projects. The commissioned projects will be run under one of the frameworks. The impact and effectiveness of the framework for both the public organisation and digital media company will then be evaluated.”
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The NESTA press release dated 30 November 2009 states:
“NESTA has released a range of simple public commissioning models that include full ownership by the public commissioner, new ways of producer licensing and a way to encourage open source projects. NESTA is also developing simplified contract templates to help public organisations commissioning under the frameworks.”
The NESTA document attached to the announcement titled: DIGITAL MEDIA RIGHTS FRAMEWORKS – PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS summarises the six frameworks:
“DIGITAL MEDIA RIGHTS FRAMEWORKS
The headlines for the six Digital Media Rights Frameworks are as follows:
Framework 1 - The Public Organisation acquires by assignment all rights in material produced under the terms of the commissioning arrangements. The public organisation makes the materials available for re-use and development for all, under standard, non-exclusive terms.
Framework 2 - The Supplier owns and retains all rights to any new stand alone IP they bring to the Public Organisation; the Public Organisation takes an exclusive licence only. Any publicly-owned data will be made available for licence under Crown Copyright.
Framework 3 - The Supplier licences their existing third party rights to the Public Organisation on a non-exclusive basis.
Framework 4 - The Supplier licences their off the shelf technology product to the Public Organisation on a non-exclusive basis.
Framework 5 - The Supplier licences their off the shelf technology product to the Public Organisation on a non-exclusive basis, but the Public Organisation owns (or may take a non-exclusive licence in) the bespoke development which it specifies and pays for.
Framework 6 - The Public Organisation commissions bespoke technology with the explicit goal of making it open-source – i.e. with non-existent copyright restrictions.”
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