Metadata and Intellectual Property Rights Seminar 2: "IPR Solutions?"
Intercontinental Malta, St. George's Bay, St. Julian's, Malta, STJ 02
Wednesday 4th June 2008, 9.30am - 5.00pm
In conjunction with CEPIC 2008
After presentations and discussion demonstrating the current situation regarding Orphan Work images in Canada, the US, the UK, Italy and Poland, MILE launched its online database of Orphan Work images at this conference, to an audience of international IP and metadata experts from the fields of Intellectual Property, image copyright and digital archiving. Chairman of The Bridgeman Art Library Harriet Bridgeman said,
"Among growing movement towards legislation regarding Orphan Works within the UK and the EC as a whole, we welcome this site as a test case for a centralised database of Orphan Work images..."
Click here for the full post-conference press release;
click here for the speakers' biographies;
click here for the conference minutes and report.
For video highlights and presentations, click on the highlighted links below.
Speakers include:
- Jonathan Band, Legal Advisor, policybandwidth
- Mario Bouchard, General Counsel, Canadian Copyright Board
- Harriet Bridgeman, The Bridgeman Art Library
- Graham Howard, Design Director, System Simulation
- Hugh Jones, Copyright Counsel, The Publishers' Association
- Pandora Mather-Lees, Head of Sales, The Bridgeman Art Library
- Sam Minelli, Head of Research Applications Centre, Alinari 24 ORE
- Tom Morgan, Head of Rights & Reproductions, National Portrait Gallery
- Tim Padfield, Information Policy Consultant, The National Archives / LACA
- Edmund Quilty, Intellectual Property & Copyright Enforcements Director, UK Intellectual Property Office
- Ewelina Sliwinska, Legal Advisor, Wardynski & Partners
Mario Bouchard - Unloctable Copyright Owners: Canada's Orphan Works Regime (ppt. 76.5 KB)
Sam H. Minelli - Creative Content Online: Multi Territory Rights Licensing, the European Commission Regulatory Consultation & the Orphan Work issues (ppt. 183 KB)
Ewelina Sliwinska - Orphan Works, Polish Perspective (ppt. 504 KB)
Sam H. Minelli - Creative Content online: Multi Territory Rights Licensing, the Euopean Community Regulatory Consultation and the Orphan Work issues (PDF 115 KB)
Wardynski and Partners Paper (PDF 104 KB)
