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Duration: 2009-2011
Commissioned by:
European Union
Website:
http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/
Authors: L. Guibault,
C.J. Angelopoulos,
C.A. Jasserand
Summary:
In collaboration with the
Bibliothèque
Nationale de
Luxembourg and
Knowledgeland, the Institute is conducting
research about the copyright bottlenecks within Europeana.
Desk research and consultations with stakeholders will be used to analyse
the situation on
at least two main
topics and produce a report and recommendations:
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Topic 1:
Protection durations. The duration of
protection for books,
sound, images and film as well as specific rules on moral rights expiration
/ perpetuity and the impact of EU law (e.g.
Directive 2006/116 on the term
of protection of copyright and certain related rights) will be analysed.
The resulting analysis will also be the basis for a Decision Tree upon which
the web-based Public Domain Helper Tool will be built. For some content types
and jurisdictions the layers and durations of rights may be so complex, that
a decision tree version is neither useful nor approriate. These cases will
be identified on a case by case process and in consultation with the common
IPR workgroup. This evidence
also supports the
Europeana Public Domain
Charter.
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Topic
2:
Cross-border licensing of works. This part of the research will examine
to what extent a
system of extended collective licensing could provide a solution to the cross-border
licensing of works that are made available in the framework of mass-digitization
projects.
Related publications:
Cross-border extended collective licensing: a solution to online
dissemination of Europe's cultural heritage?, Amsterdam: Institute for
Information Law, August 2011. Report commissioned by EuropeanaConnect by J.
Axhamn en L. Guibault.
Presentations:
http://www.digitalknowledge2010.se/speaker_presentations/lucie_guibault.pdf
Outcome of the project:
Europeana Data Exchange Agreement |
