Contents:
- 1 Context
- 2 Project Methodology
- 3 The Findings
- 4 Recommendations
- 4.1 For the Europeana Inside Consortium
- 4.2 For organisations wishing to participate in Europeana
- Appendix 1 National Library of Luxembourg
- Appendix 2 Wellcome Trust Library
- Appendix 3 Visual Arts Data Service
- Appendix 4 Europeana Inside Use Cases
EUROPEANA INSIDE is seeking to put into the hands of (AV-)content providers the tools to manage IPR and licensing permissions at a granular (object, group or collection) level.The consultants Naomi Korn en Professor Charles Oppenheim (both Intellectual Property Rights specialists) have identified the crucial challenges that form the main reason that cultural heritage institutions are restrained from providing access to previews and metadata from their collections via Europeana.Research results show that the source of these obstacles are of an organisational nature, rather than known legal restrictions or by the ambiguity and contradiction of part of the copyright laws in the European countries. The willingness of an organization to take risks and assessing the interest of public reuse of e.g. previews and or metadata versus the potential commercial opportunities of this material for the organisation appear to be the major challenges.In the view of the consultants, it is essential for organisations who wish to participate in Europeana, to perform a risk analysis first. And to implement a rights management system that is able to register the rights concerned, both on the collection level and on the object level. It is expected that in following these recommendations (AV-)institutes will be able to enrich the Europeana content on a large scale via the online access to thumbnails and metadata.This report is written on the authority of the Europeana Inside project, in the list of deliverables, please click on the link to the “IPR report”.
This report can stimulate content providers to find ways to provide content, when they realise the importance of the organisation’s awareness and understanding of its constraints. The authors do acknowledge the issues that are outside the organisation’s control (e.g. the quality of the data, or data which is confidential or commercially sensitive). At the same time, they clarify that an organisation that recognises the constraints that it operates under can develop policies and practices to minimise the negative effects of such constraints, and can pro-actively exploit opportunities that it perceives. For AV-archives who wish to participate in Europeana, or to present (parts of) their collection to the public otherwise, the report presents six useful recommendations.