[TEXT] Biodiversity Heritage Library

[annatuma]

The Biodiversity Heritage Library licenses all *metadata as CC0, as stated in their developer documentation:
https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/tools-and-services/developer-and-data-tools/

However, individual sources do not appear to have consistent rights statements, and are not using CC legal tools.

E.g. unknown rights: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/237667#page/2/mode/1up

E.g. public domain (but not PDM): https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12866543#page/69/mode/1up

This collection needs to be reviewed by Product Counsel before proceeding.

[annatuma]

I question if we can ingest this collection as it stands, since only metadata is CC0 licensed, and not the actual objects. @sarahpearson assigning this to you, as next step is legal review.

[sarahpearson]

Thanks for flagging. It looks to me like at least some of the objects in the collection are CC-licensed, according to this: https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/help/copyright-and-reuse/ (See the "In Copyright" section)

In order to include this repository in the catalog, we would have to be able to isolate and include only those CC-licensed objects. Given that the public domain material in the repository is not marked with either CC0 or the Public Domain Mark, we should not include them at this time.