It takes longer than it takes…

Back in 2009, Europeana Connect

• Which works are in the public domain?

• Which questions need answering?

• How harmonised are protection terms?

• Is there enough - linked - Data to automatically calculate?

In 2011 Law became Code

30 jurisdiction’s protection terms analysed

Legal Research by IvIR, Univ. Amsterdam

Translation into code by Kennisland

Launch of www.outofcopyright.eu v.1

Now at archive.outofcopyright.eu

2015 Relaunch - legal

Additional legal research

Rights created during digitisation

• Comparative study by T. Margoni, IvIR

• Fully automated, Semi-automated and

Human operated digitisation

2015 Relaunch - tech

New back- and frontend

Generic, visual, decision tree editor

Full API

Simple local deployment for mass

calculation & integration into your tools

Next steps

Port existing 30 jurisdictions to the

new infrastructure

(FR, DE, NL, LU done)

Integrate 2011 directive on sound

recording terms (50->70 years)

Add countries, eg Croatia, others.

What does the future hold?

Integration into rights determination

and clearance tools, local analysis of

mass digitisation collections

“Public Domain Aware” catalogues

• End of protection dates for works

• Find Public Domain editions

Enriched authority files

• VIAF, Wikidata, etc.

Beyond copyright

Map your own decision processes

• When is a work out of commerce?

• When is due diligence search done?

• Export and timestamp results of

decision processes

Meet us at

the poster