presentation on how copyright needs to be reformed from the perspective of European cultural heritage institutions. The presentation was given at the Europeana Awareness final plenary in Madrid on the 29th of October 2014

1. Raising awareness for IPR issues
Paul Keller, Europeana Awareness Final Plenary, 29 October 2014

2. Raising awareness for rights
issues
1) rights labelling campaign
2) supporting the public domain
3) copyright policy support
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3. 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.

4. Rights label per category
(as percentage of total)
Public Domain
Creative Commons
All Rights Reserved
Unmarked/Unknown
WRONG
PRESENTATION

5. 29 October 2014

8. The Orphan Works directive
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

9. #fail

10. #fail
Foto-AG Gymnasium Melle, CC BY-SA

11. #fail

13. this is where
we need to be
A battle, Peter Snayers, 1615 - 1650 via rijksmuseum.nl

14. Europe’s cultural heritage
institutions deserve better!

15. …better than an orphan works
directive that does not help
with mass digitization

16. …better than a copyright
directive that allows us to
digitize works only in certain
special cases.

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

18. …better than a lending
directive that leaves libraries
at the mercy of publishers
when they want to lend out
e-books

19. Europe needs a copyright
system that enables
universal online access to
culture.

21. source:
governance across borders
Leonhard Dobusch CC-BY

22. Cultural heritage institutions argue for exceptions
that allow them to make works available online
which are not in commercial circulation anymore
Opposing interests?
Publishers (and Authors) are primarily concerned
that cultural heritage institutions will use broader
exceptions to unfairly compete with them

23. 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

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

25. thanks!
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