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Practical Solutions to Orphan Works


11.15am - 1.30pm, Friday 5th June 2009
Room 1, Seminar Level, Maritim International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany


CEPIC and The MILE Project hosted a dedicated seminar on how to handle Orphan Works images in your daily business. This seminar focused on finding real, practical ways for you to deal with Orphan Work images in your day-to-day work, from the perspectives of all users - commercial image suppliers, clients, collecting societies, educational establishments and cultural heritage institutions. As Orphan Works legislation is an ongoing international issue, the practicalities of how to deal with them in daily business is necessary to establish best practice models throughout the industry and move towards legislation on a national level.


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For speaker presentations, click on the highlighted names below

• Luis Manuel Ferrão, Information Society, European Commission, 'Orphan Works' (PPT 209KB)
• Dr. David Sutton, Director, The WATCH File, 'The WATCH File, Copyright and Orphan Works' (PPT 5,002KB)
• Dr. Mihály Ficsor, President, Hungarian Copyright Council, 'Extended Collective Licensing Arrangements and their practicality for dealing with Orphan Works' (DOC. 90KB)
• Jessica Sanger, Lawyer, Boersenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, 'Orphan Works in Practice: Implications of the Google Book Settlement and OW Solutions at national and European level' (PPT 256KB )
• Naomi Korn, Intellectual Property Office, The Collections Trust, 'In From The Cold: Orphan Works Survey' (PPT 2,376KB)
  
• Randy Taylor, CEO, The Copyright Registry, 'The Copyright Registry' (PPT 358KB)
  
• Jeff Downey, Director of Sales and Business Development, PicScout, "Image Tracker: Protect Your Images" (PDF 816KB)