Raad van de Europese Unie stemt voor Richtlijn Verweesde Werken

B9 11719. Council of the European Union: New EU rules for orphan works. The Council today adopted a directive establishing a legal framework aimed at improving access to and digitisation of orphan works across the EU.

The new rules will facilitate the digitisation of and lawful cross-border online access to orphan works contained in the collections of libraries, educational establishments, museums, archives, audiovisual heritage institutions and public service broadcasting organisations. These beneficiary institutions will be able to use orphan works when fulfilling their public interest missions without the risk of infringing copyright. 

Material catalogued as having orphan status in a member state will have the same status in all member states. A single publicly accessible online database will contain the information related to orphan works, including the results of searches for right holders. The directive provides for a system of compensation in the event of reappearing right holders. The level and conditions of compensation will be fixed by the member states taking into account the non-commercial use of the works made by the beneficiary institutions. Member states will have a maximum of two years to incorporate the new rules into their national legislations.

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