{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/orphan-works-and-uk-glams-the-case-for-a-risk-managed-approach/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Orphan Works and UK GLAMs: the case for a risk managed approach","slug":"orphan-works-and-uk-glams-the-case-for-a-risk-managed-approach","createdLocal":"2021-06-10 14:30:52.752531","publishDate":"None","feedName":"Image Recognition","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://pro.europeana.eu/post/orphan-works-and-uk-glams-the-case-for-a-risk-managed-approach"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>Orphan works and a black hole of cultural heritageOrphan works (referred to in a broad sense and not necessarily in the sense of the Orphan Works Directive) are works in copyright where the rights holders are either unknown or cannot be traced.\nAcross EU heritage institutions, there are probably hundreds of millions of orphan works, sometimes representing up to 40-50% of collection items.\nIt requires reasonable searches to establish if rights holders could be located and if not, heritage institutions can register details of their orphan works on an EUIPO Orphan Works database.\nNotably, until the UK left the EU on 1st January 2021, UK heritage institutions had used the Orphan Works Directive to publish some of their orphan works online.\nConsequently, for UK institutions and those across the EU not using the Orphan Works Directive, risk management becomes an even more important consideration in opening up access to their orphan works.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"orphan-works-and-uk-glams-the-case-for-a-risk-managed-approach"}}}