This paper aims at providing the tools to make a risk analysis, and at formulating and expanding the elements of risk management of innovative digitization projects. These elements are: prevention of claims, allocating financial means necessary to deal with complaints, and complaints management in order to prevent that a formal complaint will be filed, or to reach a settlement in an early stage.

 

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Tjeerd Schiphof is assistant professor of Cultural information studies at the University of Amsterdam. His interests include the legal aspects of cultural heritage, notably copyright and privacy issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although content held by audiovisual archives is now being digitised and some of it is available online, access is mainly at the

national institutional level, resulting in a wide range of conflicting and competing access routes. In general, access to audiovisual

archives and television in particular is fractured, metadata is scattered, interoperability is almost zero, right issues are restrictive and potential educational value is vague and ill served. The EUscreen Best Practice Network (running between 2009-2012) deals with these issues on an European level.

 

With the support of FIAT/IFTA, the European Broadcasting Union and the EDL Foundation, the EUscreen Best Practice Network will create access to collection of digitised television material. The result will be a highly interoperable EUscreen platform, including a core collection of >35,000 television items as well as references to digitised items of the institutional collections and catalogue entries. Comprised of 28 partners from 17 EU member states (plus Switzerland) EUscreen has a considerable impact in providing access to television heritage and it will play an important role in the advancement of Europeana. The project is funded by the eContentplus programme of the European Commission. This DISH2009 contribution, will focus on the definition of use case scenarios and the use of Creative Commons to support creative reuse.

 

EUscreen is building specific services based on specific use cases, demonstrating how key constituencies of users can access and use digital audiovisual content for a range of different purposes. These scenarios are developed, in close coordination with specific targeted users, in the fields of learning, research and leisure/cultural heritage and for the benefit of open culture productions. Content available in Europeana will be explicitly included in the scenarios.

One of the scenario’s will focus on using Creative Commons licences in the scope of Europeana, in order to support creative reuse of television heritage. EUscreen is working with end-user communities that add value to materials from archives within their own social media systems, or mix archive content with materials they have themselves created. These kinds of applications represent the most rapidly growing uses of media today.

 

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Drs. Wietske van den Heuvel is project assistant at the R&D Deparment of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The R&D department is
part of the Images for the Future project bureau. Images for the Future is the largest digitization project in Europe to date. Wietske mainly works on externally funded research projects including EUscreen and VidiVideo. Wietske holds a BA in Communication and Information Sciences, a MA in New Media and Digital Culture and a MA in Arts Policy and Management.

 

 
 

Drs. Johan Oomen is head of the R&D Department of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Phd candidate at the VU University Amsterdam. The R&D department is part of the Images for the Future project bureau. Images for the Future is the largest digitization project in Europe to date. For the R&D department Johan mainly works on externally funded research projects, notably the FP7 programme and ICT PCP programme. His research projects focus on providing access to digital heritage via networks. Johan holds a BA in Information Science and an MA in Media Studies. Within the framework of his Phd research at the VU University Amsterdam Oomen works on the NWO funded AGORA project. Johan is a member of the Webstroom expert group, centered around the use of streaming media in higher education. This expert group is funded by the SURF Foundation and General Secretary of the international DIVERSE network. Oomen worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council (London) and RTL Nederland. Johan gives presentations on his work and research at conferences and publishes regularly in journals including Ariadne, Innovate and Information Professional.

 

 

 

By protecting the interests of authors and creators, it is often argued that traditional copyrights are constraining the free flow of

information in our society. According to the free culture movement, the emergence of interactive media technologies, sealing users with more control, participation and power, has urged for a less restrictive copyrights system. In this network society, culture is copied, edited, mixed and shared. Therefore, the free culture movement aims to support creators and innovators by granting intellectual property rights. However, it does so by limiting the reach of those rights in order to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. By the use of so-called open content licenses such as Creative Commons, Creative Archive etc. cultural heritage institutions are able to distribute digital collections and allow for real interaction with their users and visitors.

 

According to recent research in the United Kingdom, these open content licenses gain popularity in the cultural heritage community. In this paper the results of a wide-scale survey on the use of open content licenses in cultural heritage institutions in Flanders are presented and discussed. This survey, which was supported by all important Flemish heritage sector platforms (Faro, VTi, MCV, BAM), aims at getting a first view on the use of these licenses in Flanders and tries to identify differences across the various cultural branches within the cultural heritage sector. The results reveal that copyrights indeed hamper the widespread distribution of digital collections over the internet. Nevertheless, it is shown that cultural heritage institutions are quite likely to shift towards open content licensing in order to facilitate access to their digital collections.

 

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Tom Evens is a researcher at the Research Group for Media & ICT (MICT-IBBT) and at the Department of Communication Sciences (Ghent University, Belgium). Tom holds a M.A.s in communication sciences (2005) and and M.A. in business economics (2006). His research focuses on new media economics and changing distribution models for the content industries (sports, culture, heritage, news…).