The document discusses France's ReLIRE registry and 2012 law regarding out-of-commerce books from the 20th century. The ReLIRE registry lists books that are eligible for digitization under the law. Rightsholders can opt-out their books, while others can opt-in. The BnF manages the registry with input from publishers, authors, and a scientific committee. Eligible books must be 20th century French books no longer under commercial publication. Partners help evaluate books and rights. Over 88,000 books are now available through collective management licenses.

1. Out of commerce books of the 20th
century in France: implementation
of the 2012 Law
Third Europeana Licensing Workshop
Luxembourg 20-21 November 2014

2. ReLIRE refers to…
« Registre des livres indisponibles en réédition
électronique »
• Opt-out requests
(right-holders)
• Opt-in requests
(everyone)
A LIST OF
BOOKS
• An online
bibliographic catalog
• A legal database
SERVICES FOR
RIGHT-HOLDERS
accessible at relire.bnf.fr

3. The stakeholders
A dedicated role for each stakeholders…
• 3 authors, 3 publishers
and 1 member of the
BnF
• Defines and validates
the content of the list
• Processes the opt-out
requests
• Gives licenses for
digital publishing
• Creates and
maintains the Registry
• Receives opt-out
requests and sends
them to the Sofia
• Creates the annual
information campaign
• Informs right-holders of
the publication of the
list
BnF
Ministry of
Culture
SOFIA
Scientific (CMO)
Committee

4. The scope of the Law
To be registered in the ReLIRE Registry,
books must be…
SCIENTIFIC
COMMITTEE
Responsible for the
documentary content
of the list
OF THE 20TH C.
Published before
December 31
2000
FRENCH
Published in
France
OUT-OF-COMMERCE
In any format or
edition
COPYRIGHTED
Less than 70
years after the
author’s death

5. Partnerships for data treatments
To create the lists, the BnF has established
partnerships with…
• Clusters manifestation
records in TEL in a work
record
• Checks the rights status of
each expression by
interrogating VIAF
• Delivers the clusters to the
BnF via webservice
• Checks the commercial
availability of each
manifestation according to
the rules defined by the
Scientific Committee
• Delivers results to the BnF

6. An opt out principle
95 000 works registered since March 2013,
88 000 in collective management today…
54 000
35 200
ReLIRE
2014
60 000
ReLIRE
2013
March
21st
Sep.
21st
34 700
5 254
1 200
500
198
425

7. Authorisations
Licences for digitization and exploitation,
collection et distribution…
A collective management system under the control of
right holders
Licences are of two types:
• Original publishers are offered an exclusive 10-year
Licence
• 2 months later, the remaining works are offered to
distributers willing to accept non-exclusive 5-year
licences
Once details of sales/loans and fees paid have been notified to
SOFIA, payments will be made to identified right holders.

8. Beneficiaries
Readers through bookshops and libraries
• Bookshops, libraries: The first books to be re-issued in
digital format should appear in Spring 2015. Libraries,
bookshops and readers will then be able to begin to take
advantage of these rediscoveries.
• Gallica
– Inside the premises: 100 % of out of commerce books (images
and OCR)
– Online: 15 % extract (from the first page), as soon as the ebook
is commercially available again, with a link to read further

9. Next steps
End of 2014
First books digitized
(ReLIRE 2013)
Spring 2015
First ebooks
commercially available
(ReLIRE 2013)
September 21st 2014
Books entered collective
management
(ReLIRE 2014)
March 23rd 2015
Third list on ReLIRE
(ReLIRE 2015)

10. Thank you for your attention
Juliette Dutour
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Juliette.dutour@bnf.fr