International Copyright Compliance
Use cases from a German Research Institution
Matthias Arnold, Heidelberg | March 14, 2014
The Cluster of Excellence
"Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality“
To “enhance the understanding of the multi-layered interactions between and within Asia and Europe”Ca. 60 projects organized in 17 interdisciplinary research groups and 4 research areas5 new professorshipsGraduate School, M.A. Transcultural Studies DH unit “Heidelberg Research Architecture” (HRA)
The Karl-Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, HeidelbergPhoto M. Arnold 2010
(Some) Research fields:
Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Buddhist Studies, Chinese Studies, Egyptology, Historical Studies, Indology, Islam Studies, Japanese Studies, Law Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Musicology, Public Health, Political Sciences, Religious Studies, Social Sciences, Tibetan Studies, and more
Languages: English, German
Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Russian, etc.
Research collections
New research area: Transcultural Studies
Digitisation of research material (often access restricted, e.g. if related to Ph.D. studies)
http://abou-naddara.uni-hd.de (open access, not annotated)
Digital collections
“Classical” image database, hosted by University Library
Copyrighted material, access restricted to members of the university
Digital collections
Professorships Visual and Media Anthropology and Global Art History
Reproductions and fieldwork photographs
Digital collections
Slide collection of Prof. Sontheimer’s field research (1958-92)
Slide collection - Institute of East Asian Art History
Images in German copyright law
• “Photo works (Lichtbildwerk)“ – higher level of creativity, artistic image, also includes individual amateur photographs-> individuality matters (motif, perspective, light/shadow)
• protection: 70 years post mortem auctoris
• „Photos (Lichtbild)“ – e.g. shopping catalog images, x-ray or aerial photographs
• protection: 50 years after creation/publication
• Unprotected images – e.g. reproductions of 2D originals
Many restrictions, e.g.:
• Image quotation (unaltered, citation of source)
• Access for research & education (clearly defined group)
• Electronic reading places – Libraries, Museums, Archives
Copyright collective
Since the 1965 new copyright law creators may receive royalties from
• reproductions; resale; online publishing; library use; intranet use in schools or universities; photocopying; use at electronic reading places, in reading circles, or in press reviews
Organisation through collecting society “VG Bild-Kunst” (since 1968)
• administers different rights and royalty claims for its members
Special platform for Art History
2001: prometheus – distributed digital image archiveCentral access to digital images for research & education
Non-profit association
Connects 78 databases16 open access > 1.1 million images
University, archive, and museum collections
Mostly German speaking countries
Metadata:Artist, title, location, date,image source, copyright, source database
prometheus
Agreement with VG Bild-Kunst:
• world wide image for non-commercial research and educational purposes
Cooperation with Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (bpk):
• bpk-images may be freely used in non-commercial academic publications (ed. >1000 samples) with citation
Provides copyright/ publishing information (as delivered)
Implementation of HyperImage for publishing (“MetaImage”)
Access to prometheus: campus or personal license
Insert -> Header/Footer -> check “Slide Number” and “Footer” with the respective line, e.g. Institute | Person | Title 13
Summary/Outlook
Open access to public domain material
Central access to copyrighted material
