Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age - ARROW

Olav Stokkmo, Chief Executive, IFRRO

13 October 2009 IFLA-IFRRO-WIPO-IPA-EWC Conference; Frankfurt

• European Commission• Multilingual access point to European Cultural heritage

• EUROPEANA (www.europeana.eu)

• Common access point to collections in European Libraries; archives; museums

• More than 150 collaborating partners and content deliverers• Also in-copyright works, albeit most out-of-copyright

• 4,8 million objects; (10 million by 2010)• Main contributors

• France incl. Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) • Soon integration of German Libreka!

European Digital LibrariesEUROPEANA – “Europe’s Digital Library”

i2010 Digital libraries initiative European Commission

European Commission

Public–Private Partnership (2-06)

Copyright Subgroup (4-06)

Scientific/Scholarly info (10-06)

High Level Expert Group (2-06)

Communication (9-06)

Recommendation (8-06)

Communication (2-07)

•Authors; Publishers•Reproduction Rights Org.•Libraries/Archives/Museums

REPORTS • Final Report (4 June 2008)

First Report (11-07)

• Preliminary Report (4-07)

Implementing the solutions

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

(Accessible Registriesof Rights

Information and Orphan Works)

towards

EUROPEANA

www.arrow-net.eu

http://www.arrow-net.eu/resources/useful-information.html http://www.ifrro.org/show.aspx?pageid=activities/digital libraries/i2010 digital libraries&culture=en

Gallica (France)Libreka! (Germany)Bookshelf (Norway)

>1 copy, when justifiedWeb harvesting

27 Partners and associates

• 9 Libraries• 8 National libraries and 1 University library

• Austria; Finland; France; Germany; Netherlands, Norway; Slovenia; Spain; UK

• 12 Rightholder organisations• 5 national authors and publishers associations• 7 RROs (Reproduction Rights Organisations)

• 3 International organisations• The European Digital Library• IFRRO; FEP (Federation of European Publishers)

• 3 ISBN Agencies; Business/Technology developers

System for identification across borders of• Rights status

• In or out of © • In or out of print / commercialised or not

• Rights• Which rights are involved

• Rightholders• Authors• Publishers

• How and where do I clear the rights

• Orphan Works Orphan Works Registry

wwww.arrow-net.euENABLES DILIGENT SEARCH

work flowBased on Quality controlled Information sources

Library

Libraryinterface

Matchingrecords

Clusteringeditions

VIAF

1st data collection

BiP

TEL

TEL connector

BiP connector

VIAF connector

Matchingrecords

2nd data collection

RRORRO connector

Matchingrecords

3rd data collection

ROW

RROs• CMOs for text and image based works (print)• Key facets of their activities

• Awareness raising & Copyright enforcement• Licence, collect and distribute revenues;• Mandated by

• Writers, Visual creators, composers• Publishers of books, periodical press, music• Foreign rightholders

Creators and Publishers associations• National and International

IFRRO – 117 Members in 57 countriesThe International Link and Global network

Project life cycle

Phase I(12 monthsSeptember

2008 -September

2009)

Phase II(12 months September

2009 – September

2010)

Phase III(12 months

February 2010 – February

2011)

Legal framework & Business Models

Interoperability

Design of system architecture

Set up of right information infrastructure

Creation of Registry of Orphan Works

Network of clearing mechanisms

Assessment & Validation

Definition of methodology and preparation of tools

Testing of the system mechanisms

Main Objectives and Expected Results

Deliver a rights information infrastructure operable within and across borders trough distributed network Facilitate identification of

Rights involved Rightholders (authors/publishers) IPR status (in/out of copyright, in/out of print, orphan)

• Guidelines and tools to foster interoperability between private and public collections

• Facilitate information on/clearance of rights of Out-of-Print Work

• Creation of a European Registry of Orphan Works (ROW)

• Rights Clearance Centers

©Thank you for your attention

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Olav.Stokkmo@ifrro.org