Presentation given at the EUscreenXL Strategic Workshop on IPR Regulations for Audiovisual Heritage, The Hague, 13 May 2014

1. Improving Access to
Europe’s AV Heritage
ErwinVerbruggen
Netherlands Institute for Sound andVision
Improving Access to
Europe’s AV Heritage

2. network of co-operating archives and heritage institutions

3. Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

4. Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

5. • legitimate interests
• av: the hardest nut to crack
• online use?
• national legislations
Challenges of IPR

6. Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

7. • copyright should be adapted to the digital
world we live in
• national rules should be harmonised
• no digital borders within the single market
Multi-territoriality

8. Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

9. • Main issues:
– Cross-border licensing
– Making available out-of-commerce works
• defining out-of-commerce works
• success of MoUs (in library sector)?
Need for more clarity

10. Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

11. • Broadening the existing InfoSoc
exception: making works available online
for non-commercial uses
Access to content

12. Why is EUscreenXL doing this?

13. • Multi-territoriality:
– copyright should be adapted to the digital
world we live in
– national rules should be harmonised
– no digital borders within the single market
• Further harmonisation of copyright rules is
needed
• Broadening the existing InfoSoc exception
to make works available online for non-
commercial uses
Solutions for all sectors?

14. •preserve, digitize and make accessible
•material hardly available for general public
•digitization took place on the basis of an
exception in Dutch Copyright Act
•making available of that material would
most likely infringe the copyright owner’s
exclusive right
Images for the Future?

15. • Ep. 12; Judith Bosch with Ton Sijbrands
• Ep. 27; Gerrit Eerenberg and Netty
Rosenfeld
• First Female Newsreader
• Fashion Designers
• Ep. 4; Astrid Engels
• Picture Page
Images used