What models already exist in other national initiatives

This is a preliminary survey of other national digital libraries models regarding access to copyrighted and orphan works, gs.

NORWAY

In 2009, the Library signed an agreement with Kopinor, representing rights-holders (i.e. authors, publishers, visual content creators) from about 30 different organizations. Under the 3-year agreement, users will be able to access 50,000 copyright-protected books free on the Library’s website (42,000 are available today). The scanned books can be read only on computers screens in Norway and cannot be downloaded or printed out. € 0.06 per page, per year is paid to rights-holders via Kopinor (for a book in service, independently of use). This project called “Bokhylla.no”(“Bookshelf”) is a pilot “ to see if one could find permanent principle criteria for paying right-holders for giving access to copyright-protected material.” Some publishers have withdrawn textbooks; otherwise the project is quite widely used. This and the previous agreement with rights holders in the High North Project are being studied as a possible model for other libraries across Europe. (Skarstein 2009, Solbakk 2010) Text of the contract with Kopinor http://www.nb.no/pressebilder/Contract_NationalLibraryandKopinor.pdf

NETHERLANDS

KB signed archiving agreements with Dutch publishers for national digital publications and with major international scientific publishers for permanent storage of e-journals. KB obtained permissions from the rights holder organizations and the publishers for the newspaper digitization program (the KB provides the publishers with a digital copy and the publishers provide the KB with the right to publish the newspaper article on the Web). There are no approved plans to digitize in-copyright books or undisclosed orphan works; however, KB is interested in tools that assess whether items are in copyright (fall into the 70-year mark after an author’s death) or not. (Hans Jansen, KB Deputy Director General, Phone Interview (Sept. 17, 2010))

EUROPE

Several waves of recommendations regarding copyrighted materials, including orphan works, have taken place within the European Digital Libraries Initiative, including the creation and activities of the Comité des Sages in 2010, culminating in the final report "Bringing Europe's cultural heritage online" (Jan. 2011); see chapter 5, p. 16 for copyrighted and orphan works http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/refgroup/final_report_cds.pdf . Another notable development was the establishment of ARROW, Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana, see more at http://www.arrow-net.eu/about-arrow

TAIWAN

"The "Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program" (TELDAP) was officially launched on January 1, 2008. TELDAP is aimed to creatively promote national digital archives and e-learning applications and facilitate the development of Taiwan's culture, society, industry and economy, followed by disseminating Taiwan's experience in the international community to expand Taiwan's international space and sustainably maintaining important cultural assets of our nation and the development of e-learning's application in industry, academic research and education." See http://teldap.tw/en/Overview.php for more information [Martin Kalfatovic]