Improving Access to Europe’s AV HeritageErwin Verbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Improving Access to Europe’s AV Heritage

network of co-operating archives and heritage institutions

Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

• legitimate interests• av: the hardest nut to crack• online use?• national legislations

Challenges of IPR

Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

• copyright should be adapted to the digital world we live in

• national rules should be harmonised• no digital borders within the single market

Multi-territoriality

Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

• Main issues:– Cross-border licensing–Making available out-of-commerce works• defining out-of-commerce works• success of MoUs (in library sector)?

Need for more clarity

Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

• Broadening the existing InfoSoc exception: making works available online for non-commercial uses

Access to content

Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

• Multi-territoriality: – copyright should be adapted to the digital

world we live in– national rules should be harmonised– no digital borders within the single market

• Further harmonisation of copyright rules is needed

• Broadening the existing InfoSoc exception to make works available online for non-commercial uses

Solutions for all sectors?

•preserve, digitize and make accessible•material hardly available for general public•digitization took place on the basis of an exception in Dutch Copyright Act•making available of that material would most likely infringe the copyright owner’s exclusive right

Images for the Future?

• Ep. 12; Judith Bosch with Ton Sijbrands • Ep. 27; Gerrit Eerenberg and Netty

Rosenfeld • First Female Newsreader• Fashion Designers• Ep. 4; Astrid Engels • Picture Page

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