Accessible Registriesof Rights Information on Orphan Works towards the EDL

Co-funded by the Community programme

eContentplus

ARROW

Increasing demand for content on the internet

Content moves from printed material to digital format

Consumers buy rights for the digital use of content Get access, download, duplicate, distribute, print, etc.

Good information structure for print material ISBN, Books in Print, National bibliographies

Solutions for a digital information infrastructure needed

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Towards a «Digital Information Infrastructure»

Inclusion of copyrighted works in the digitisation programmes

High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries (HLG) Address the organisational, legal and technical challenges Contribute to a shared strategic vision for European digital

libraries Consultate with stakeholders

Copyright Subgroup Analyse Intellectual Property Right (IPR) Issues

Digital preservation Orphan works Out-of-print-works

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i2010 Digital Libraries initiative

“In some cases rightholders cannot be identified

or located; as a result, works can be classified as ‘orphan’. […] Both text-based and audiovisual material include substantial amounts of works with unclear copyright status.”

(i2010 Digital Libraries High Level Expert Group – Copyright Subgroup, 2007)

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Orphan works

British Library estimates 40% of all print works are orphan works

Outcome Digitisation & online accessibility is hampered Libraries are prevented from their preservation &

dissemination mandate

Proposed solution Databases with information on orphan works Improved inclusion of information on rightholders Enhanced contractual practices Diligent search guidelines

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Orphan works

“A work that is commercially not available, as

declared by the appropriate rightholders,

regardless of the existence of tangible copies of the work as normally

understood.” (i2010 Digital Libraries High Level Expert Group – Copyright

Subgroup, 2007)

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Out-of-print works

Most of the 20th Century works are out-of-print-works

Outcome A work might be still of high cultural or scientific interest For digitisation projects each title has to be contracted

separately

Proposed solution A model license Establishment of a database of out-of-print works A joint clearance centre A procedure to clear rights

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Out-of-print works

Germany www.libreka.de Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels (MVB) Publishers provide services for full text search within books

Norway National Library, a collecting society and Author’s and

Publisher’s Associations Agreement to provide access to full text via library services

France http://gallica2.bnf.fr/ National Library and Publisher’s Association Realistic model for the coexistence of public and private

offers

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Recent initiatives

National solutions vary as they must fit different… cultural and economic requirements commercial practices publishing arenas library infrastructures and visions copyright regulations

Resources are not interoperable Differences in the data collection policies Differences in adopted meta data schemes

Databases rarely contain metadata about rights ownership and usage policies

Challenges9

Libraries Biblioteca Nacional de Espana

(BNE)

Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)

British Library (BL)

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

National Library of Norway (NLN)

Library of the Universität Innsbruck (UIBK)

Narodna in Univerzitetna Knijznica (NUK)

Publishers Associations Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE)

Federación de Gremios de Editores de Espana (FGEE)

Reproduction Rights Organisation Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)

International Organisations European Digital Library (EDL)

Federation of European Publishers (FEP)

International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)

Technology Developers Consorzio Interuniversitario per il

Calcolo Automatico dell’Italia Nord Orientale (CINECA)

NUMILOG

ISBN Agency Marketing und Verlagsservice des

Buchhandels (MVB)

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ARROW Contract Partners

Publishers Association

Syndicat national de l’Édition (SNE)

Publishers Licensing Society (PLS)

Collecting Society representing Authors

Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)

International Organisations European Writers Congress (EWC)*

Reproduction Rights Organisations

Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos (CEDRO)

Centre Français d’exploitation du droit de Copie (CFC)

Copy-Dan Writing Information (COPYDAN)

KOPINOR

KOPIOSTO

Library

Finnish National Library (FNL)

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ARROW Associated Partners

*invited to join the Steering Committee

1. Digital libraries and private eContent collections coexist.

2. Copyright is a facilitator, not an obstacle for content access.

3. Only a distributed solution can work in the multicultural European environment.

ARROW Concept12

Digital Preservation

Orphan Works

Out-of-Print Works

Online Access

OP Books

Business Models

Diligent search guidelines

•Registries/databases•Rights Clearance Centres

Model Agreement I

Model Agreement II

ARROW scope13

ARROW

(Accessible Registriesof Rights

Information on Orphan Works

towards the EDL)

Provide tools to support any diligent search model

Provide standards to declare copyright information

Collect data about such declaration

Develop tools to enable different business models to be interoperable

Evaluate licensing models and develop clearance mechanisms

Define what a diligent search should be

Endorse the information about IPR status

Define “the best” business model to be adopted

We will We will not

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ARROW is a technical project with political value

We will not do policy, we will serve policy

ARROW scope

Interoperability Create tools allowing different solutions implemented to

be interoperable Address the problem of interoperability along the digital

libraries value chain

Standards deployment Produce guidelines on applicable standards for

content identification and description

technical interoperability

Stakeholder involvement

Key Aspects15

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Target Group Added value

Libraries • Increase services provided to their users • Reduce costs

Right holders

• Access the emerging e-content market• Exploiting marginal niches• Maintaining control over the content

RROs • Assist right holders • Expanding existing services• Offering new services

eRetailers • Higher visibility in the Internet to their collections• Provide services to right holders • Reach new potential markets

European Digital Library

• Give access to multiple collections • Redirect users to the appropriate resources or services

Added value

Deliver a rights information infrastructure operable within and across borders Facilitate identification of rightholders

(creators/publishers) Facilitate the identification of the IPR status Network of orphan works registries

Provide test beds for Business models for digital libraries Registries for Orphan works and Out of Print works Rights clearance mechanisms Model licences developped by the HLG Interoperability and criteria for interoperability Standard deployment

Objectives17

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Project Cycle

Phase I(Months 4-

12)

Studies on current information infrastructure

Interoperability & Standards deployment

Legal framework & Business Models

Design & implementation of system and tools

Creation of Registry of Orphan Works

Network of clearing mechanisms

Assessment & Validation

Definition of methodology & tool preparation

Testing of the system mechanisms

Phase II

(Months 10-18)

Phase III

(Months 18-30)

Start up

(Months 1-3)

Set up of organisational structure

Definition of a detailed work plan

Open project meeting

Work Packages

Work Packages (WP)

WP Leaders

1Management and Evaluation

AIE Associazione Italiana degli Editori

2Dissemination and awareness

IFRRO International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations

3Legal and business models

FEP Federation of European Publishers

4Interoperability BNF

Bibliothèque Nationale de la France

5Design of system architecture

MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels

6Set up of rights information structure

CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario per il Calcolo Automatico

7Validation UIBK

Universität Innsbruck

Distributed network of sources for information on copyright status

Data about European literary works for the identification of right holders

Guidelines and tools to foster interoperability between private and public collections

Guidelines for the identification of the status of a work

Creation of an European registry of Orphan Works (ROW)

Establishment of Rights Clearing Centers

Expected results20

Stakeholder involvement Public-Private-Partnership All stakeholders in the book value net are involved

European Dimension Inclusion of a significant number of European Union

Member States

Genuine pan-European dimension based on national experiences

Preservation of cultural heritage Access to the collective memory

Creation of added-value products and services

Benefits21

CONTACT

PIERO ATTANASIO

Corso di Porta Romana 10820122 Milano Italy

Tel +39 (02) 89280800Fax +39 (02) 89280860

piero.attanasio@aie.org

arrow@aie.it

ARROW

Co-funded by the Community programme

eContentplus