| ARROW - Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works ARROW aims in particular to support the EC's i2010 Digital Library Initative by finding ways to identify rightholders, rights and clarify the rights status of a work including whether it is orphan or out of print. This will enable libraries as well as other users to obtain information on who are the pertinent rightholders, which are the relevant rights concerned, who owns and administers them and how and where they can seek permission to digitise and / or make available the work to user groups. The project also seeks to enhance the interoperability between sources of rights information (i.e. exchange of information) held by rightholders, RROs and other collective management organisations, agents, libraries and users. Solutions envisaged by the venture include the establishment of systems for the exchange of rights data, the creation of registries of orphan works, information on or registries of works out of print, supporting the creation of a network of rights clearance mechanisms. Key to achieving this objective is interoperability, standards deployment and stakeholder involvement. ARROW is funded by the European Commission's eContentplus Programme which works to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable. Expected results:
PartnersThe ARROW public-private partnership initially involves high level know-how from 16 stakeholders in the publishing value chain in 10 European countries as contracting partners. In addition, 10 stakeholder organisations support the project as external supporters. Other organisations have shown their willingness to join the initial partners at a later point. Libraries Contracting Partners The Biblioteca Nacional is Spain's highest library institution and is head of the Spanish Library System. http://www.bne.es The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is one of the largest public and research libraries in the world. Its digital library Gallica (http://gallica.bnf.fr) contains 775,083 documents including 196,445 in full text: 759,199 from BnF collections, 4,332 from library partners and 11,552 from e-distributors. http://www.bnf.fr The British Library is the legal deposit library of the UK and one of the largest libraries in the world with over 150 million items in every information format. The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 has extended the Library's legal deposit entitlement to digital items. http://www.bl.uk The German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. http://www.d-nb.de Founded in 1798, the National Library of the Netherlands was named Koninklijke Bibliotheek in 1806 and was declared the National Library in 1982. The main mission of the National Library of the Netherlands is to preserve the national printed and written heritage. http://www.kb.nl The library shall be the premier source of information about Norway, Norwegians and Norwegian culture, and it is to be Norway's main resource for the collection, archiving and distribution of Norwegian media. http://www.nb.no The University and Regional Library of Tyrol was founded in 1700. It is the largest library in western Austria and serves more than 40,000 registered users. http://www.uibk.ac.at/ulb The National and University Library was established in 1774. They collect, document, preserve, archive and provide access to the written cultural heritage of the Slovenian nation and country. http://www.nuk.uni-lj.si Associated Partners Finnish National Library is the oldest and largest scholarly library in Finland as well as the largest independent institute at the University of Helsinki. It is responsible for the collection, description, preservation and accessibility of Finland's printed national heritage and the unique collections under its care. http://www.uibk.ac.at/ulb Publishers Associations Contracting Partners The Italian Publishers Association is the trade association for Italian and foreign publishers operating in Italy or who publish books, magazines and digital products in Italian.http://www.aie.it The Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (FGEE) (Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds) is a non-profit, trade association created in 1978 to represent, manage, enhance and defend the general common interests of the Spanish publishers on a national, European and international level.http://www.federacioneditores.org Associated Partners Publishers Licensing Society is dedicated to protecting and strengthening the copyright framework by motivating good practice in rights management. One of the most important ways PLS does this is by facilitating licence solutions that protect rights and provide revenue for publishers through collective licensing. http://www.pls.org.uk Syndicat National de L'Edition is France's trade association of book publishers. It represents approximately 400 member companies whose combined business endeavors account for the bulk of French publishing.http://www.sne.fr The Swedish Publishers Association is a trade organisation for the Swedish book-publishing industry. The association has 68 members, and the main purpose of the association is to promote issues of common interest to the publishing industry, making publishers more visible, giving legal assistance with special concern to copyright protection and dealing with political and economic issues concerning publishing and book reading. http://www.forlaggare.se Reproduction Rights Organisations Contracting Partners The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd. was incorporated as a non-profit-making company limited by guarantee in 1983. CLA is an agency that acts on behalf of authors, illustrators, photographers and publishers. It is a facilitator in making widely available, under the terms of reprographic and digitisation licences, excerpts from a huge repertoire of over 16 million publications (books, journals and magazines). http://www.cla.co.uk Associated Partners Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos is a non-profit association of authors and publishers of books, periodicals and other publications in any medium. The association collectively protects and manages members' intellectual property rights. http://www.cedro.org The Centre Français d'exploitation du droit de Copie is a authors and publishers owned organisation created in 1984 to licence books and press publications'reproduction rights. http://www.cfcopies.com Copy-dan Writing represents copyright owners of books, periodicals, newspapers, magazines, trade papers, and music. The designation covers authors, journalists, composers, and illustrators, as well as publishing houses and other publishing activities. http://www.copydan.dk Kopinor Membership is in principle open to any association representing copyright holders of published works. Today Kopinor has 23 member organisations - 6 publishers' associations and 17 authors' associations. This broad representation is the backbone of Kopinor, and allows Kopinor to offer licenses in regard of photocopying and certain digital uses of published works to users based on a portfolio of rights to all relevant types of works. http://www.kopinor.no Kopiosto Copyright Society administers licenses and distributes remunerations to copyrights owners. Kopiosto represents roughly 50 000 Finnish copyrights owners who belong to 44 member organizations representing authors, photographers, performing artists and publishers in all fields of creative work. http://www.kopiosto.fi SAZOR is a non for profit reprographic rights organization of Slovenian authors and publishers (Slovenian RRO). It was registered in the second half of 2007 when SAZOR became fully operational as a Slovenian RRO, when it got a license from the Slovenian Intellectual Property Organization. SAZOR immediately got 22 publishers as their members, and theses publishers cover more than 95% of the Slovenian market. Further, over 700 authors, mainly authors and translators) joined SAZOR through their association ZAMP. Collecting Societies representing Authors Associated Partners The Author's Licensing and Collecting Society represents the interests of all UK writers and aims to ensure writers are fairly compensated for any works that are copied, broadcast or recorded. http://www.alcs.co.uk LIRA is a collective management rights organization representing Dutch writers. LIRA was established in 1986 and safeguards the authors rights of dutch writers. LIRA achieved several goals for professional writers such as a pension fund, legal assistance and a cultural fund. Recently LIRA reached an agreement with dutch libraries, archives and museum on digitization and accessibility of their heritage collection. http://www.lira.nl International Organisations Contracting Partners The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) is an independent, non-commercial umbrella association representing 26 national book and learned journal publishers' associations from the European Union Member States and from the European Economic area. http://www.fep-fee.be IFRRO represents several hundred thousand creators and publishers in the print media sectors in Europe and worldwide. Of the 110 member organisations, 64 are involved in the licensing of reprographic reproduction and certain digital uses. http://www.ifrro.org Associated Partners The European Library is a free web service of CENL, the Conference of European National Librarians, that offers access to the resources of the 48 national libraries of Europe in 27 languages. The resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, photos, videos, etc). More than 300 collections and about 150 million bibliographic records can be searched via The European Library portal. http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org Technology Developers Contracting Partners CINECA is a non profit Consortium, made up of 32 Italian universities, the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS, the CNR (National Research Council), and the Ministry of University and Research. http://www.cineca.it Numilog is a French private company, founded in 1999. Since that date, it was focused on the creation and distribution of ebooks and is now the main French private actor of this sector. http://www.numilog.com ISBN Agency Contracting Partners MVB was (as Buchhändler-Vereinigung GmbH) founded in 1947 as a service and publishing company for the German Publishers & Booksellers Association (Börsenverein) and the corresponding territorial subdivisions. http://www.mvb-online.de |
- co-funded by the European Union
