Copyrights – digitisation, online accessibility of cultural materials in

Latvia

Copyright law

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Section 15. Economic Rights of an Author

(1) With respect to the use of his or her own work, an author, has following exclusive rights:

7) to make the work available to the public by wire or by other means, so that it is accessible in an individually selected location and at an individually selected time;

9) directly or indirectly, temporarily or permanently reproduce the work;

Copyright law

Section 36. General Provisions Regarding the Term of Copyright

(1) Copyright shall be in effect for the entire lifetime of an author and for 70 years after the death of an author.

Section 47. Rightholders and Related Rights Objects

(1) Related rights are the rights of performers, phonogram producers, film producers and of broadcasting organisations.

(2) The related rights objects are performances, and their fixations, phonograms, films and broadcasts.

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Copyright law

Section 23. Use of Works for the Needs of Libraries, Archives and Museums

(1) …, each library, archives or museum are entitled to make one copy of a work existing in their permanent collection by means of reproduction, without a direct or indirect commercial purpose, in order to preserve it or to replace a work from the permanent collection of the relevant or any other library, archives or museum if such work has been damaged or has become unusable on the condition that it is not possible to obtain a copy in some other acceptable manner, and the reproduction is repeated in separate and mutually unrelated cases. Only such works that have been published in Latvia and are not available commercially are permitted to be reproduced in a digital format, unless an agreement with the author determines otherwise.

(2) Without consent from the author, libraries, archives and museums of the State, local governments or of other derived public persons are entitled, without a direct or indirect commercial purpose, to make available the works in their permanent collection, as well as copies thereof made in accordance with Paragraph one of this Section, upon request for the use for scientific research or for self-education purposes, to natural persons who have authorised access to computers specifically set up in the premises of the relevant library, archives or museum. Such service shall be ensured by the relevant library, archives or museum by using exclusively the intranet that has special protection.

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Digitisation in National Library of Latvia

- Largest digitisation projects in Latvia

- ERDF - Latvian Cultural Canon

- National Encyclopaedia

- Festivals of song and dance

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ERDF Organisation and funding

Policy base:

- Cultural Policy Guidelines 2014-2020 “Creative Latvia”

- Information Society Development Guidelines 2014-2020

- Digital Cultural Heritage Strategy 2014-2020

Main actors

- Digital cultural heritage board

- Latvian National Library

- Latvian National Archive

- Cultural Information Systems Centre

ERDF Organisation and funding

ERDF project “Digitisation of cultural heritage content” :

– Program „Growth and employment”:

2.2.1. specific support goal „Increase in re-use of public sector data and effective interaction between public and private sector”

2.2.1.2. activity „Digitisation of cultural heritage”

– Administered by the Ministry for Environmental Protection and Regional Development

– Led by the National Library of Latvia

– Budget (1st round) – 8 000 000 EUR

– 50% – digitisation of content

ERDF Organisation and funding

– Digitisation of cultural materials (digitisation of analogue materials, preservation of born-digital materials, digital fixation of cultural events)

– Information systems and infrastructure (central platform for distribution of content, upgrade of existing systems, new systems for tangible and intangible cultural heritage, digital collections

– Digitisation of regional cultural centres

– Processes (centres of competence, creation, management, preservation and distribution of cultural heritage materials)

– Standarts, guidelines and methodology

– Copyright

ERDF content

Text documents

– Newspapers, journals, books, files of tangible

heritage objects, sheet music

Images

– Photographs, aero photographs, posters, maps etc.

Audiovisual

– Audio and video tapes

Movies

– 16 mm/35 mm reels

Museum objects

3D

– Tangible heritage

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ERDF guidelines

Guidelines for digitisation

https://lnb.lv/lv/bibliotekariem/digitalizacijas-vadlinijas

-Copyrights

- 3D (architecture)

- 3D artefacts

- Audio-visual

- Books, newspapers

- Other

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Newspapers

Newspapers – 1 861 000 pp.

– Regional newspapers of soviet period (1945-

1990) – 773 000 pp.

– Newspapers in Russian, German, Polish and

Hebrew languages – 500 000 pp.

– Other titles – 588 000 pp.

Content partners: LNB, LU Academic library, RSU, RTU

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Books

Books – 609 000 pp.

– Reference materials – 186 000 pp.

• Encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies

• Phone books and address books

– Scientific literature – 189 000 pp.

• Law, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences

– Rare books and rarities – 234 000 pp.

• Including books in one copy only

Content partners: LNB, LU, LU Academic library, RTU

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Sheet music

Sheet music – 200 000 pp.

– Content partner: LNB

Files of tangible heritage objects – 400 000 pp.

– Content partner: VKPAI

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Maps

Maps – 5 000 pp.

– Topographic maps of Latvia – 4 900 pp.

• All maps of Latvia published by 1990

– Rare maps – 100 pp.

– Content partner: LNB

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Pictures

Pictures – 111 500 items

– Posters – 2 000 items

– Photo negatives – 77 500 items

• Latinform photo agency photos

• Photos from newspaper «Diena» archive

• Latgiprozem aero photographs

• Photo negatives from LU and VKPAI

– Parchments (1220-1700) – 2 000 items

• Unique materials from National Archive

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Documents

– Measurements of tangible heritage objects – 18

000 items

– Documents on festivals of song and dance – 12

000 items

– Content partners: LNB, LNA, VKPAI, LU

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Sound

Sound recordings – 223 500 minutes

– Recordings from Latvian Radio – 120 000 min.

– Recordings from Museum of literature and music

– 41 000 min.

– Oral history recordings – 30 000 min.

– Recordings of Liepaja city musical events – 32

500 min.

- Data protection!

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Video

Video recordings – 245 100 minutes

– Recordings of Latvian Television – 78 000 min.

– Documentaries – 4 200 min.

– Video recordings of Latvian government – 129

000 min.

• Recordings of former presidents, Parliament

and its commissions

– Other – 33 900 min.

• Recording of Latvian diaspora

• Archive of University of Latvia

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Movies

Movies – 81 000 minutes

– Chronicles – 27 000 min.

– Documentaries – 53 720 min.

– Animation movies – 535 min.

– Feature movies – full restoration of 15 movies

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3D

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Approbation of 3D scanning, mainly for tangible

cultural heritage

10 objects

Freedom Monument

Other 3D

Priorities

– Addition of exisiting digital object to the National

museum joint catalogue

– Digitisation of objects related to topics of digital

collections (mainly festival of song and dance)

– Other historically important collections

Includes training and use of mobile digitisation units

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Stage events

Stage events

– Opera and theater

– Concerts

Arts education

– Concerts of Academy of Music and musical schools

– Exhibitions of Academy of Arts and art schools

Intangible cultural heritage

– Historical professional skills

Content providers: Opera, theaters, agency Latvian concerts, arts education schools, LNKC

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ERDF

Accessibility:

Copyrights + Data protection

1) Only in library (copyright protected)

2) On global network (copyright term, specific licences)

3) In network of libraries (copyright protected, but out of commerce)

4) Only on some computers in National Library (e-books, specific licences)

5) No access (data protection)

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Festivals of song and dance

History of festivals of song and dance since 1873

Content – Text: books, programmes, documents

– Images: posters, photographs, sheet music

– Audiovisual: sound recordings, newsreels, broadcasts

– Items: flags, medals

– 3D: stages

Contextualisation – Biographies

– Historical bacground

Crowdsourcing

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Rainis and Aspazija

A digital collection on work of Latvian poets Rainis and Aspazija, based on linked data principles and enabling digital humanities research

Contents – Text: books, annotations, letters, documents

– Images: photos, posters

– Audiovisual: sound recordings

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National Encyclopedia

The National Encyclopaedia is a universal-knowledge,

popular-science resource in the Latvian language being

compiled on the basis of academic principles. The

Encyclopaedia consists of electronic data accessed by

keywords, but a special print volume about Latvia itself is

prepared to mark Latvia's centenary (you can buy it at

book stores). A long-term vision of continuous

accumulation and improvement of knowledge underpins

the creation and development of the Encyclopaedia.

- digitisation of pictures, objects, phonograms, ect.

- currently 1600 pictures/objects

- diligent search of rightsholders

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Latvian Cultural Canon

99 most important cultural achievements.

- Folklore and traditions

- Architectura and design

- Theatre

- Visual art

- Literature

- Music

- Cinema

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Diligent search

1 – CMO and rightsholders organisations

2 – Experts

3 – Database

4 – Global network

5 – Social networks

6 – Information in homepage

7 – Information in “Latvijas Vēstnesis”

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Information in homepage

- official homepage

- save information

- only small picture

- in cese of dispute

- is not legaly binding

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Social networks

- effective, if there is

known name of author

- is not legaly binding

- infringement

- data protection

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Synchronisation

Synchronize information about authors in different projects:

- 2x diligent search for the same author in different projects

- Different budget can cause anger

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Thumbnails

- Thumbnails/small prewiev pictures in catalogues – copyright protected

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Jurģis Īvāns Ministry of Culture Republic of Latvia

Copyright department Jurgis.Ivans@km.gov.lv

www.km.gov.lv