06.05.2010
06.05.2010
06.05.2010
Photo: © European Union, 2010
The Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament urges EU States to enlarge Europeana while respecting copyright
A report drafted by MEP Helga Trüpel and approved by the Culture Committee on 22 February 2010 urges the EU Member States to provide more and better content to Europeana while copyright needs to be observed.
The draft report “Europeana, the next steps” highlights the need of the EU governments and cultural institutions to co-operate closely in speeding up digitisation, and "not to restrict availability to the territory of their country".
One of the main issues concerning content for Europeana raised by the report is the copyright status of the works. In that field, references to the out of print and orphan works were included in the document and ARROW has been noted as a “very useful tool(s) in facilitating the rights clearance for orphan works.”
The document also states that the European Parliament “welcomes and supports initiatives, such as the ARROW project, partnered by both rights-holders and library representatives, in particular since these seek to identify rights-holders and their rights, and clarify the rights' status of works including whether these are orphan or out of print.”
The initial draft report can be found here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMP..., while the amendments to the draft report on Europeana can be downloaded from: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMP....
