13th Conference on Professional Information Resources

Autor: Adéla Faladová, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

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Abstract:

The paper focuses on the European project of the European Digital Library (the “EDL“). The EDL project aims at making Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage (books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc.) accessible through one multilingual internet access point. Within the context of the EDL project, there is a number of copyright-related issues to be resolved – namely a possibility to digitise, making orphan works and out-of-print works available, as well as issues related to the so-called web-harvesting – whilst it is mandatory that all existing national, European, as well as international, legal norms are respected. All copyright-related matters shall be consulted with rightholders and their representatives. The Ministry of Culture has established an informal working group representing interested parties (rightholders, libraries, museums, galleries and archives). A special Copyright Subgroup of the High Level Expert Group has been established by the European Commission. Several recommendations for dealing with copyright-related issues were prepared. Similar questions have been studied by other institutions and non-EU countries.

About author:

Adela Faladova works as Deputy Director of the Copyright Department of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. She has been researching on copyright law since her studies at the Faculty of Law of Charles University. Her diploma paper on publisher’s contracts was published in 1994. She lectures on copyright law at the Industrial Property Training Institute of the Industrial Property Office and she is also a copyright expert of the UK CERGE team for NEEO project (Network of European Economists Online).

Author: Jan Pokorný, Multidata Praha, Czech Republic

Co-authors:

Author: Stanislav Psohlavec, AiP Beroun s.r.o., Czech Republic

Author: Thomas Wolf-Klostermann, Bavarian State Library, Germany

Author: Miroslav Bartošek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Author: Stephanie Krueger, ARTstor, USA

Author: Jan Hutař, National Library of the Czech Republic / Charles University - Faculty of Philosophy & Arts, Czech Republic

Co-authors:

Author: Michal Brandejs, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Co-authors:

Author: Vladimír Karen, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic