Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age - ARROW Olav Stokkmo, Chief Executive, IFRRO 13 October 2009IFLA-IFRRO-WIPO-IPA-EWC Conference; Frankfurt

European Commission Multilingual access point to European Cultural heritage EUROPEANA ( 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 Libraries EUROPEANA – “Europe’s Digital Library”

i2010 Digital libraries initiative European Commission European Commission Public–Private Partnership ( 2-06) Copyright Subgroup (4-06) Scientific/Scholar ly 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 Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works) towards EUROPEANA libraries/i2010 digital libraries&culture=en Gallica (France) Libreka! (Germany) Bookshelf (Norway) >1 copy, when justified Web 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.eu ENABLES DILIGENT SEARCHwwww.arrow-net.eu

work flow Based on Quality controlled Information sources Library interface Matching records Clustering editions VIAF 1st data collection BiP TEL TEL connector BiP connector VIAF connector Matching records 2nd data collection RRO RRO connector Matching records 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 countries The International Link and Global network

Project life cycle Phase I (12 months September 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

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