Contribute to international survey on orphan works
Experts who create and curate digital content from public sector
organisations across Europe, are invited to contribute to JISC's
international survey on 'orphan works' called 'In from the Cold Europa
2010'.
There are millions of so-called 'orphan works' - photographs,
recordings, texts and other ephemera from the last 100 years - which
risk becoming invisible because rights holders are not known or easy to
trace.
Now this topic is the focus of this survey commissioned by the JISC-led
Strategic Content Alliance in conjunction with the Association of
European Research Libraries (LIBER), the European Bureau of Library,
Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) and the Wellcome
Trust.
The survey aims to establish how much time, effort and money is spent on
orphan works across Europe by people working in the public sector and to
find out the effect orphan works have on cultural heritage preservation
at an international level.
Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, said:
"If we do not reform our European copyright rules on orphan works and
libraries swiftly, digitisation and the development of attractive
content offers will not take place in Europe, but on the other side of
the Atlantic."
Organisations such as universities, archives, libraries, museums, health
services and public service broadcasters are invited to participate.
Although no particular technical knowledge is required, the survey does
ask participants to fill in relatively detailed information about the
collections (digital and analogue) held or licensed by your
organisation.
In May 2009 over 500 organisations took part in the UK only orphan
works online questionnaire which showed that rich primary resources are
being 'warehoused' at public expense - with little or no prospect of
them being delivered online to the public without additional costs
and/or risks being imposed on the public purse.
Take part in the international survey
<http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/476EBBEAF7ED1854/>
(http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/476EBBEAF7ED1854/) to help provide real
comparisons between European countries on the impact of orphan works.
Closing date 26 February 2010 at 18.00 GMT.
Find out more about the issues surrounding this topic by reading the 'In
From The Cold: An assessment of the scope of 'Orphan Works'
<http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2009/06/sca_colltrust_orphan_works_v1-
final.pdf> report. This report shows how the UK is in real danger of
losing 20th century materials due to the current copyright laws, the
levels of resources needed to trace the rights for each orphan work and
the potential lock down of access to these important works.
Wouter SCHALLIER
LIBER Executive Director
"Making the case for European Research Libraries"
Join LIBER at http://www.libereurope.eu <http://www.libereurope.eu/>
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