I have a vision
Neelie Kroes (Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda): Addressing the orphan works challenge.
IFRRO (The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations) launch of ARROW+ (Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana). Brussels, 10 March 2011.
“(…) I have a vision: One search in ARROW should be all you should need to determine the copyright status of a cultural good in Europe. If it were embedded in the forthcoming Directive on orphan works, ARROW could become the official portal in Europe where you can find essential rights information and do automated searches of rightholders and copyrights. In the medium-term, it could cover all European print works (books, magazines, etc.) in the EU, and afterwards – why not? – also photographic and audiovisual works.
ARROW should become a one-stop shop for determining, easily and quickly, with full legal certainty, whether a work is orphan or not, out-of-distribution or not, and so on.
For this to be achieved, the system must continue to be run, on a consensual basis, by all the relevant stakeholders. It has to provide comprehensive pan-European coverage of the rights and rightholders involved. Where the cultural infrastructure is not yet in place, we will need to find ways and means to do it. I also expect that ARROW will be able to scale up in order to deal with non-text material. In the short term that means material like visual works and illustrations, but in the long term it could mean more.
So that is the ambition and the goal to be reached in the coming years.
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HvJ EU, 10 maart 2011, conclusie A-G Jääskinen in zaak C-462/09, Stichting de Thuiskopie tegen Opus (prejudiciële vragen Hoge Raad der Nederlanden). (Met dank aan Tobias Cohen Jehoram & Vivien Rörsch,
Speech staatssecretaris Teeven ter gelegenheid van het afscheidsdiner van 5 leden van de Commissie Auteursrecht. Amsterdam, 3 maart 2011.
Rechtbank Amsterdam, 6 oktober 2010, LJN: BP6075, [A] tegen RTL Nederlands B.V. c.s.
Rechtbank Amsterdam, 23 februari 2011, HA ZA 08-2533, Universal International Music B.V. c.s. tegen Tuff Gong Distributors L.P (met dank aan Mariken van Loopik en Tobias Cohen Jehoram,
Gerechtshof ’s-Gravenhage, 22 februari 2011, zaaknr. 200.006.902/01, [X] tegen De Staat der Nederlanden (met dank aan Sikke Kingma,
Vzr. Rechtbank Utrecht, 9 februari 2011, KG ZA 11-113, Interdam Projects B.V. tegen Metaglas B.V. (met dank aan Martin Hemmer,
Rechtbank Haarlem, 9 februari 2011, HA ZA 09-222, Global-Wallet. c.s. tegen Chess c.s. (met dank aan Aron Das Gupta,
Rechtbank ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 15 februari 2011, BP RK 11-196, Hema B.V. & Fiep Westendorp Foundation tegen Action Non-Food B.V.