1.
Co-funded by the
Community programme
eContentplus

2. «Digital Information Infrastructure»
Towards a
«Digital Information Infrastructure»
Increasing demand for content on the internet
Content moves from printed material to digital format
Consumers buy rights for the digital use of content
Get access, download, duplicate, distribute, print, etc.
Good information structure for print material
ISBN, Books in Print, National bibliographies
 Solutions for a digital information infrastructure needed

3. i2010 Digital Libraries initiative
Inclusion of copyrighted works in the digitisation programmes
High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries (HLG)
Address the organisational, legal and technical challenges
Contribute to a shared strategic vision for European digital libraries
Consultate with stakeholders
Copyright Subgroup
Analyse Intellectual Property Right (IPR) Issues
Digital preservation
Orphan works
Out-of-print-works

4. 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)

5. Orphan works
British Library estimates 40% of all print works are orphan works
Outcome
Digitisation & online accessibility is hampered
Libraries are prevented from their preservation & dissemination mandate
Proposed solution
Databases with information on orphan works
Improved inclusion of information on rightholders
Enhanced contractual practices
Diligent search guidelines

6. 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)

7. Out-of-print works
Most of the 20th Century works are out-of-print-works
Outcome
A work might be still of high cultural or scientific interest
For digitisation projects each title has to be contracted separately
Proposed solution
A model license
Establishment of a database of out-of-print works
A joint clearance centre
A procedure to clear rights

8. Recent initiatives Germany Norway France www.libreka.de
Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels (MVB)
Publishers provide services for full text search within books
Norway
National Library, a collecting society and Author’s and Publisher’s Associations
Agreement to provide access to full text via library services
France
National Library and Publisher’s Association
Realistic model for the coexistence of public and private offers

9. Challenges National solutions vary as they must fit different…
cultural and economic requirements
commercial practices
publishing arenas
library infrastructures and visions
copyright regulations
Resources are not interoperable
Differences in the data collection policies
Differences in adopted meta data schemes
Databases rarely contain metadata about rights ownership and usage policies

10. ARROW Contract Partners
Libraries
Biblioteca Nacional de Espana (BNE)
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)
British Library (BL)
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB)
Narodna in Univerzitetna Knijznica (NUK)
National Library of Norway (NLN)
University of Innsbruck (UIBK)
Publishers Associations
Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE)
Federación de Gremios de Editores de Espana (FGEE)
Reproduction Rights Organisation
Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
International Organisations
Federation of European Publishers (FEP)
International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
Technology Developers
Consorzio Interuniversitario per il Calcolo Automatico dell’Italia Nord Orientale (CINECA)
NUMILOG
ISBN Agency
Marketing und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels (MVB)

11. ARROW Associated Partners Reproduction Rights Organisations Library
Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos (CEDRO)
Centre Français d’exploitation du droit de Copie (CFC)
Copy-Dan Writing Information (COPYDAN)
KOPINOR
KOPIOSTO
Library
Finnish National Library (FNL)
Publishers Association
Syndicat national de l’Édition (SNE)
Publishers Licensing Society (PLS)
Collecting Society representing Authors
Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)
International Organisations
European Digital Library (EDL)
European Writers Congress (EWC)*
*invited to join the Steering Committee

12. ARROW Concept
Digital libraries and private eContent collections coexist.
Copyright is a facilitator, not an obstacle for content access.
Only a distributed solution can work in the multicultural European environment.

13. ARROW scope ARROW (Accessible Registries
Digital Preservation
ARROW
(Accessible Registries
of Rights Information on Orphan Works towards the EDL)
Orphan
Works
Diligent search guidelines
Registries/databases
Rights Clearance Centres
Out-of-Print Works
Model Agreement I
Online Access
OP Books
Model Agreement II
Business Models

14. ARROW scope We will We will not
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
Evaluate licensing models and develop clearance mechanisms
Define what a diligent search should be
Endorse the information about IPR status
Define “the best” business model to be adopted
 ARROW is a technical project with political value
 We will not do policy, we will serve policy

15. Key Aspects Interoperability Standards deployment
Create tools allowing different solutions implemented to be interoperable
Address the problem of interoperability along the digital libraries value chain
Standards deployment
Produce guidelines on applicable standards for
content identification and description
technical interoperability
Stakeholder involvement

16. Added value Libraries Right holders RROs eRetailers European Digital
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
Library
Give access to multiple collections
Redirect users to the appropriate resources or services

17. Objectives
Deliver a rights information infrastructure operable within and across borders
Facilitate identification of rightholders (creators/publishers)
Facilitate the identification of the IPR status
Network of orphan works registries
Provide test beds for
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

18. Project Cycle Start up Phase I Phase II Phase III
(Months 1-3)
Set up of organisational structure
Definition of a detailed work plan
Open project meeting
Phase I
(Months 4-12)
Studies on current information infrastructure
Interoperability & Standards deployment
Legal framework & Business Models
Phase II
(Months 10-18)
Design & implementation of system and tools
Creation of Registry of Orphan Works
Network of clearing mechanisms
Phase III
(Months 18-30)
Assessment & Validation
Definition of methodology & tool preparation
Testing of the system mechanisms

19. Work Packages Work Packages (WP) WP Leaders 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Management and Evaluation
AIE
Associazione Italiana Editori 2
Dissemination and awareness
IFRRO
International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations 3
Legal and business models
FEP
Federation of European Publishers 4
Interoperability
BNF
Bibliothèque Nationale de la France 5
Design of system architecture
MVB
Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels 6
Set up of rights information structure
CINECA
Consorzio Interuniversitario per il Calcolo Automatico 7
Validation
UIBK
University of Innsbruck

20. Expected results
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
Guidelines for the identification of the status of a work
Creation of an European registry of Orphan Works (ROW)
Establishment of Rights Clearing Centers

21. Benefits Stakeholder involvement European Dimension
Public-Private-Partnership
All stakeholders in the book value net are involved
European Dimension
Inclusion of a significant number of European Union Member States
Genuine pan-European dimension based on national experiences
Preservation of cultural heritage
Access to the collective memory
Creation of added-value products and services

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eContentplus