Raising awareness for IPR issues

Paul Keller, Europeana Awareness Final Plenary, 29 October 2014

Raising awareness for rights issues

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1) rights labelling campaign 2) supporting the public domain 3) copyright policy support

Rights labelling campaign

As part of Europeana Awareness we have worked with the ingestion team to ensure that all metadata records in Europeana carry one of 13 standardized rights labels. In October 2014 47% of all digital objects available via Europeana had a rights label that allows re-use by third parties.

Unmarked/UnknownAll Rights ReservedCreative CommonsPublic Domain

Rights label per category (as percentage of total)

WRONG PRESENTATION

29 October 2014

Establishes an unrealistically high standard of diligent search Fails to address whole categories of works (foto’s) Does not grant cultural heritage institutions sufficient protection from damages

The Orphan Works directive

#fail

#failFoto-AG Gymnasium Melle, CC BY-SA

#fail

this is where we need to be

A battle, Peter Snayers, 1615 - 1650 via rijksmuseum.nl

Europe’s cultural heritage institutions deserve better!

…better than an orphan works directive that does not help

with mass digitization

…better than a copyright directive that allows us to

digitize works only in certain special cases.

…better than a copyright directive that allows us to make works available only via ‘dedicated terminals’

…better than a lending directive that leaves libraries

at the mercy of publishers when they want to lend out

e-books

Europe needs a copyright system that enables

universal online access to culture.

source: governance across borders

Leonhard Dobusch CC-BY

Opposing interests?

Cultural heritage institutions argue for exceptions that allow them to make works available online

which are not in commercial circulation anymore

Publishers (and Authors) are primarily concerned that cultural heritage institutions will use broader exceptions to unfairly compete with them

ensure that cultural heritage

that is not in commercial exploitation

anymore remains available for the

public

primary exploitation of creative works (needs to be protected from unfair competition)

Cultural Heritage Institutions

Publishers and Creators

Change is not something that will happen by itself, you need to get involved

Kennisland works with Europeana and its partners to improve the accessibility of Europe’s cultural heritage online. Learn more about Kennisland at www.kl.nl

thanks!