Dear MCGers,
we've been asked to share this survey with you:
http://1686881.polldaddy.com/s/orphan-works-survey
"Bring light into the digital ‘black hole’ of the 20th and 21st
centuries…and your chance to win a new ‘Kindle’! This is your
opportunity to make your voice heard at Westminster and Brussels. In
2009 two agencies – Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and the
Collections Trust (CT) published one of the few empirical pieces of
evidence on the scale and affects of orphan works on galleries,
libraries, archives and libraries specifically and other organisations
more broadly, entitled ‘In from the Cold”
http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ipr-publications/managing-orphan-works/
In 2011, the SCA and CT have been joined by LIBER, Museums Galleries
Scotland, Scottish Library and Information Council, Research Libraries
UK and SCONUL in an attempt to gauge the changes which have occurred
since the original report was published by completing this online
survey. The results will be shared with UK IPO, HMG, EC and European
Parliament."
And more background:
http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/12/09/orphan-works-survey-why/ and
http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/21/orphan-works-survey/
(including interesting comments from photographers who disagree with
the premise of the survey).
Cheers, Mia
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