www.arrow-net.eu
Co-funded by the
Community programme
eContentplus
Towards a
«Digital Information Infrastructure»
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Increasing demand for content on the internet
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Content moves from printed material to digital format
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Consumers buy rights for the digital use of content
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Get access, download, duplicate, distribute, print, etc.
Good information structure for print material
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ISBN, Books in Print, National bibliographies
 Solutions for a digital information infrastructure needed
i2010 Digital Libraries initiative
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Inclusion of copyrighted works in the digitisation
programmes
High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries (HLG)
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Address the organisational, legal and technical challenges
Contribute to a shared strategic vision for European digital libraries
Consultate with stakeholders
Copyright Subgroup
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Analyse Intellectual Property Right (IPR) Issues
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Digital preservation
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Orphan works
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Out-of-print-works
Orphan works
“In some cases rightholders cannot be identified
or located; as a result, works can be classified as
‘orphan’. […] Both text-based and audiovisual
material include substantial amounts of works with
unclear copyright status.”
(i2010 Digital Libraries High Level Expert Group – Copyright Subgroup, 2007)
Orphan works
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British Library estimates 40% of all print works are
orphan works
Outcome
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Digitisation & online accessibility is hampered
Libraries are prevented from their preservation & dissemination
mandate
Proposed solution
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Databases with information on orphan works
Improved inclusion of information on rightholders
Enhanced contractual practices
Diligent search guidelines
Out-of-print works
“A work that is commercially not available, as
declared by the appropriate rightholders,
regardless of the existence of tangible
copies of the work as normally understood.”
(i2010 Digital Libraries High Level Expert Group – Copyright Subgroup, 2007)
Out-of-print works
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Most of the 20th Century works are out-of-print-works
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Outcome
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A work might be still of high cultural or scientific interest
For digitisation projects each title has to be contracted separately
Proposed solution
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A model license
Establishment of a database of out-of-print works
A joint clearance centre
A procedure to clear rights
Recent initiatives
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Germany
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Norway
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www.libreka.de
Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels (MVB)
Publishers provide services for full text search within books
National Library, a collecting society and Author’s and Publisher’s
Associations
Agreement to provide access to full text via library services
France
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http://gallica2.bnf.fr/
National Library and Publisher’s Association
Realistic model for the coexistence of public and private offers
Challenges
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National solutions vary as they must fit different…
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Resources are not interoperable
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cultural and economic requirements
commercial practices
publishing arenas
library infrastructures and visions
copyright regulations
Differences in the data collection policies
Differences in adopted meta data schemes
Databases rarely contain metadata about rights
ownership and usage policies
ARROW Contract Partners
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Libraries
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Biblioteca Nacional de Espana (BNE)
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)
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British Library (BL)
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)
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Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB)
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Narodna in Univerzitetna Knijznica (NUK)
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National Library of Norway (NLN)
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University of Innsbruck (UIBK)
Publishers Associations
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Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE)
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Federación de Gremios de Editores de
Espana (FGEE)
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Reproduction Rights Organisation
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Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
International Organisations
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Federation of European Publishers (FEP)
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International Federation of Reproduction Rights
Organisations (IFRRO)
Technology Developers
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Consorzio Interuniversitario per il Calcolo
Automatico dell’Italia Nord Orientale (CINECA)
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NUMILOG
ISBN Agency
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Marketing und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels
(MVB)
ARROW
Associated Partners
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Reproduction Rights Organisations
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Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos
(CEDRO)
Centre Français d’exploitation du droit de
Copie (CFC)
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Copy-Dan Writing Information (COPYDAN)
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KOPINOR
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KOPIOSTO
Library
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Finnish National Library (FNL)
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Publishers Association
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Syndicat national de l’Édition (SNE)
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Publishers Licensing Society (PLS)
Collecting Society representing
Authors
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Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society
(ALCS)
International Organisations
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European Digital Library (EDL)
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European Writers Congress (EWC)*
*invited to join the Steering Committee
ARROW Concept
1. Digital libraries and private eContent collections coexist.
2. Copyright is a facilitator, not an obstacle for content
access.
3. Only a distributed solution can work in the multicultural
European environment.
ARROW scope
Digital
Preservation
Orphan
Works
Out-of-Print
Works
Online Access
OP Books
Business Models
Diligent search guidelines
ARROW
•Registries/databases
•Rights Clearance Centres
Model Agreement I
Model Agreement II
(Accessible Registries
of Rights Information
on Orphan Works
towards the EDL)
ARROW scope
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We will
Provide tools to support any diligent
search model
Provide standards to declare
copyright information
Collect data about such declaration
Develop tools to enable different
business models to be interoperable
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We will not
Define what a diligent search should
be
Endorse the information about IPR
status
Define “the best” business model to
be adopted
Evaluate licensing models and develop
clearance mechanisms
 ARROW is a technical project with political value
 We will not do policy, we will serve policy
Key Aspects
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Interoperability
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Standards deployment
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Create tools allowing different solutions implemented to be
interoperable
Address the problem of interoperability along the digital libraries value
chain
Produce guidelines on applicable standards for
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content identification and description
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technical interoperability
Stakeholder involvement
Added value
Target Group
Added value
Libraries
• Increase services provided to their users
• Reduce costs
Right holders
• Access the emerging e-content market
• Exploiting marginal niches
• Maintaining control over the content
RROs
• Assist right holders
• Expanding existing services
• Offering new services
eRetailers
• Higher visibility in the Internet to their collections
• Provide services to right holders
• Reach new potential markets
European Digital • Give access to multiple collections
• Redirect users to the appropriate resources or services
Library
Objectives
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Deliver a rights information infrastructure operable
within and across borders
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Facilitate identification of rightholders (creators/publishers)
Facilitate the identification of the IPR status
Network of orphan works registries
Provide test beds for
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Business models for digital libraries
Registries for Orphan works and Out of Print works
Rights clearance mechanisms
Model licences developped by the HLG
Interoperability and criteria for interoperability
Standard deployment
Project Cycle
Start up
(Months 1-3)
Phase I
(Months 4-12)
Phase II
(Months 10-18)
Phase III
(Months 18-30)
Set up of organisational structure
Definition of a detailed work plan
Open project meeting
Studies on current information infrastructure
Interoperability & Standards deployment
Legal framework & Business Models
Design & implementation of system and tools
Creation of Registry of Orphan Works
Network of clearing mechanisms
Assessment & Validation
Definition of methodology & tool preparation
Testing of the system mechanisms
Work Packages
Work Packages (WP)
Management and Evaluation
1
WP Leaders
AIE
Associazione Italiana Editori
Dissemination and awareness IFRRO
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International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations
Legal and business models
3
FEP
Federation of European Publishers
Interoperability
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BNF
Bibliothèque Nationale de la France
Design of system architecture
MVB
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Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels
Set up of rights information
6 structure
Validation
CINECA
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University of Innsbruck
Consorzio Interuniversitario per il Calcolo Automatico
UIBK
Expected results
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Distributed network of sources for information on copyright status
Data about European literary works for the identification of right
holders
Guidelines and tools to foster interoperability between private and
public collections
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Guidelines for the identification of the status of a work
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Creation of an European registry of Orphan Works (ROW)
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Establishment of Rights Clearing Centers
Benefits
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Stakeholder involvement
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Public-Private-Partnership
All stakeholders in the book value net are involved
European Dimension
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Inclusion of a significant number of European Union Member States
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Genuine pan-European dimension based on national experiences
Preservation of cultural heritage
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Access to the collective memory
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Creation of added-value products and services
CONTACT
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20122 Milano
Italy
Tel +39 (02) 89280800
Fax +39 (02) 89280860
http://www.arrow-net.eu
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Co-funded by the
Community programme
eContentplus