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Intellectual Property Issues and Europeana, Europe's Digital Library, Museum and Archive

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2010

Jonathan Purday
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Abstract

Europeana is the focus of a number of IPR issues. The portal provides access to three sets of assets: the Open Source code base, the authority-controlled metadata and the digitised content. Europeana has integrated metadata standards across the heritage domains and will now licence the metadata as a resource for the development of linked data and semantic web applications. The main rights issues concern the digitisation of public domain content and orphan works. Digitisation of out-of-copyright analogue material does not create new rights and the Europeana Public Domain Charter provides guidelines for the sector. An inhibitor to digitisation is the problem of orphan works, now under review by the European Commission.

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CopyrightEurope
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Copyright
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 174 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2010

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1 Council conclusions of 20 November 2008 on the European digital library Europeana. 2008/C 319/07. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52008XG1213(04):EN:NOT

2 Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions [SEC(08) 2372] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52008DC0513:EN:NOT

3 http://publicdomainmanifesto.org

4 http://group.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/publications/

5 ACE: Association Cinémathèques Européennes

CENL: Conference of European National Librarians

CERL: Consortium of European Research Libraries

EMF: European Museum Forum

EURBICA: European Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives

FIAT: International Federation of Television Archives

IASA: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

ICOM Europe: International Council of Museums, Europe

LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche

MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

6 Boyle, James. (2008) The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Yale University Press, 2008. p. 40

7 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions A Digital Agenda for Europe COM/2010/0245 May 2010 p. 30 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2010:0245:FIN:EN:HTML

8 Resolution of the European Parliament on ‘Europeana – next steps’. May 2010. p8 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/parliament/resolution_europeana.pdf

9 No percentage for orphan film works is given in the Assessment

10 Assessment of the Orphan Works Issue and Costs for Rights Clearance, Anna Vuopala European Commission, DG Information Society and Media. May 2010. p5 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/info_centre/cultural/disclaim/index_en.htm

11 Asessment. Ibid. p44.

12 Resolution. Ibid p9.

13 http://group.europeana.eu/web/guest/details-arrow/