Siobhan Leachman's trials and tribulations of reusing digital public domain content provided by New Zealand GLAMs from the perspective of a member of the public. I will discuss my experience attempting to reuse public domain digital surrogates placed online by a wide variety of New Zealand GLAMs. The problems and issues I have faced will be considered as well as the methods and workflows I have used to attempt to overcome these challenges. I will make suggestions on how GLAMs can improve the experience of New Zealanders and others wanting to reuse digital surrogates of public domain content provided by GLAMs on the internet. Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AP38TJMVaA Presented on behalf of Siobhan Leachman by Mike Dickison.

1. Siobhan Leachman
Wikipedia: User:Ambrosia10
Twitter: @SiobhanLeachman
Telegram: @siobhanleachman
Slides: http://bit.ly/GizItNDF
White Cliffs by John Tudgay. Sarjeant Gallery. No known copyright restrictions.
Giz it:
A journey in
reuse

2. 1918 photograph. Red Jersey Appeal - Government Printing Office Zoo. Archives
New Zealand. R21572805 via Flickr CC BY 2.0. Out of copyright in New Zealand.
My people
Fan of GLAM folk
No copyright expert

3. Wikidata and Wikicommons logo Public domain. Wikipedia logo CC BY SA 3.0
Wiki projects

4. Museum, Christchurch, circa 1905, Christchurch, by Muir & Moodie studio.
Purchased 1998 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa
(PS.002472) No Known Copyright Restrictions
NOT
everything
Cultural status
Privacy
Donor agreements

6. Samuel Delabere Barker by Alfred Charles Barker. 1864. Canterbury
Museum. 1958.81.355 No known copyright restrictions.
I believe
GLAM
mission statements
Gate keepers?

7. Inconsistent
reuse statements
or
terms of use
Captain Elizabeth Catherine Gunn. S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait
negatives. Ref: 1/1-014009-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington,
New Zealand. /records/22766391(Public domain in New Zealand.)

8. Information via www.natlib.govt.nz
Screen shot of www.natlib.govt.nz CC BY 3.0 NZ

9. Terms of Use
Screenshot of www.natlib.govt.nz CC BY 3.0 NZ

10. Downloadable Image
Screenshot of www.natlib.govt.nz CC BY 3.0 NZ Screenshot of www.ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz CC BY 3.0 NZ

11. Okamotoya uchi Toyo'oka Tamino Miyono by Utagawa Toyoshige II. 1815-
1835 Auckland Art Gallery. No known copyright restrictions.
Concerns
Creates confusion
Inhibits reuse
Wastes resources

12. Life at Sling Camp - I don't think! By Reg Carter. Ca. 1914-1918. Auckland War
Memorial Museum. No known copyright restrictions.
“MY
institution
doesn’t do
this!”
Reuse content
Terms & conditions
Rights statements

13. Ministry of Labour - Recruiting Office for Women by Edith Collier. 1917-1918.
Sarjeant Gallery Collections Online. No known copyright restrictions.
Great GLAMs
Rights statement
Clear terms of use
How to credit
Point of contact

14. Mt Cook, New Zealand by Duncan Darroch. 1926-1935. South
Canterbury Museum. 2010/097.12 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Public Domain in
New Zealand)
Creative
Commons
Copyright
Licenses
Can’t license
something that
doesn’t exist.

15. Mount Peel Church by Alfred Charles Barker. 1872. Canterbury Museum.
1944.78.111 No known copyright restrictions.
Creates confusion
Inhibits reuse
Wastes resources
Creative
Commons
licensing
on
Public
Domain works

16. [Boy and teacher in classroom], 1920s to 1930s, by Roland Searle. Purchased
1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa (A.018768) No
known copyright restrictions.
Education
Public Domain
Copyright
Creative Commons
licenses

17. Screenshot of Dunedin from Little Paisley by Edward Immyns Abbot (d. 1849).
1849. Hocken Library Collections. 14,414 Terms of use. (Permission to publicly
display and publish online the copy of this public domain in New Zealand artwork
was not requested.)
GLAMs
restricting
reuse
Terms of reuse
Written reuse
requests
Reproduction fees
“All rights reserved”

18. Storm at Sea by Victor Gifford Audubon (d. 1860). Dunedin Public Art Gallery. 5-
2007 (Public domain in New Zealand. Permission to reproduce the copy of this
public domain artwork was not requested.)
Example:
Dunedin
Public Art
Gallery
Restricts reuse of:
Copies made by public on
site
Copies on collection
website

19. Screenshot of copyrighted Dunedin Public Art Gallery website. Copy taken in reliance of “fair
dealing” provisions of Section 42 &/or 43 of the Copyright Act 1994.

20. A lake scene by John Gully. (d. 1888). The Suter Te Aratoi O Whakatū 141. All
Rights Reserved. (Public domain in New Zealand, Accessed via NZ Museums site.
Permission to reuse this image was not obtained from the contributing museum.)
Publicly
funded
GLAMs
Restrictive terms of
use
Contract out of the
public domain
Perpetual control of
copying

21. Poster, 'My Daddy Bought Me a Government Bond', 1918, United States, by
The United States Printing & Lithograph Co., Department of the Treasury,
Publicity Bureau. Gift of Department of Defence, 1919. Te Papa (GH016652)
No known copyright restrictions.
Revenue?
Cultural status?
Alternatives

22. Path of least
resistance
Write
Don’t reuse
Hutt River, 1892, Wellington, by James Nairn. Gift of Miss Mary Newton, 1939.
Te Papa (1939-0009-4) No known copyright restrictions.
Workflow

23. Lake Tarawera by John Gully. 1872. Collection of the Sarjeant Gallery Te
Whare o Rehua Whanganui. Purchased with bequest from Elizabeth Parkes,
1952. No known copyright restrictions.
Great GLAMs Thank you
for
enriching my life

24. Hope, 1865 by John Buchanan. 1865. Squashed to fit into half the slide.
Alexander Turnbull Library. Public domain in New Zealand.
Siobhan Leachman
Wikipedia: User:Ambrosia10
Twitter: @SiobhanLeachman
Telegram: @siobhanleachman
Slides: http://bit.ly/GizItNDF

25. © Siobhan Leachman, 2019. Unless indicated otherwise for
specific images, this slide deck is licensed for re-use under
the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 International licence. Please
note that this licence does not apply to any images. Those
specific items may be re-used as indicated in the image rights
statement within each slide. In essence, you are free to copy,
distribute and adapt this slide deck, as long as you abide by
the other licence terms.