EnDOW Community. Public engagement in orphan works clearance to unlock access to UK film archives

EnDOW社区是一个后续项目，旨在提高公众对EnDOW（“通过分布式孤儿作品清理加强对20世纪文化遗产的获取”）的参与，这是一个由AHRC在文化遗产和全球变化联合计划倡议（2014-2018）下资助的为期三年的合作项目。EnDOW项目开发了一种在线资源——勤勉搜索工具（可在http://diligentsearch.eu）--that上获得)，帮助图书馆、博物馆和档案馆完成清理“孤儿作品”版权的复杂任务。这些作品的版权仍然存在，但其版权所有者未知或无法确定。为了合法地将这些材料数字化并向公众开放，持有机构必须证明他们对版权所有者进行了不成功的“勤奋搜索”。虽然这一要求往往导致一个繁琐的过程，许多文化机构缺乏资源和专业知识，但EnDOW勤奋搜索工具促进了这一任务，并使它对没有版权法专业知识的用户也可行。基于基础研究项目所创造的资源，EnDOW社区探索了一种使用EnDOW勤勉搜索工具的创新方式。这个在线资源将被用作英国电影档案部门版权清理的众包平台。在与英国电影协会（BFI）的合作下，这个后续项目将让一个志愿者社区参与清理大量电影和视听作品的版权，这些作品在BFI和其他国家和地区的电影档案馆中可能是孤儿作品。这是一个尚未开发的、潜在的巨大财富，只要对其进行系统的勤奋搜索，公众就可以获得这些财富。为了实现这一目标，EnDOW社区将创建一个志愿者社区，通过让已确定的文化机构（国家和地区电影档案馆）使用在线勤奋搜索工具，让这些志愿者拥有清理视听版权作品权利的技能。一项专门的招募活动将在英国主要电影节和活动中展开。在线资源将被激活，以协助志愿者对BFI和国家和地区电影资料馆选择的一些影片进行勤奋的搜索，包括视频教程，网络广播和讨论论坛。通过这种合作，该项目将提供约300部已清除版权的孤儿作品（电影），主办文化机构将能够合法地利用这些作品并在网上分享。这个为期一年的项目所产生的参与和专业知识有可能扩展到更广泛的档案材料，以便所有部门的文化遗产机构可以充分利用有关孤儿作品和文化保护的现有立法。

EnDOW Community is a follow-on project designed to increase public engagement around EnDOW ("Enhancing access to 20th Century cultural heritage through Distributed Orphan Works Clearance"), a 3-years collaborative project funded by AHRC under the Joint Programme Initiative in Cultural Heritage and Global Change (2014-2018). The underpinning EnDOW project has developed an online resource--the Diligent Search Tool (available at http://diligentsearch.eu)--that helps libraries, museums and archives in the complex task of clearing rights in their 'orphan works'. These are works in which copyright still subsists but whose rights holders are unknown or cannot be located. In order to lawfully digitize and make such material available to the public, the holding institutions must prove they have carried out an unsuccessful 'diligent search' of the copyright owners. While this requirement frequently results in a burdensome process, for which many cultural institutions lack resources and expertise, the EnDOW Diligent Search Tool facilitates this task and makes it feasible also to users with no specialized knowledge of copyright law.Building on the resource created by the underpinning research project, EnDOW Community explores an innovative way of using the EnDOW Diligent Search Tool. This online resource will be used as a crowd-sourcing platform for copyright clearance in the UK film archive sector. In collaboration with the British Film Institute (BFI), this follow-on project will engage a community of volunteers in the task of clearing rights on a large amounts of films and audio-visual works that are potentially orphan works within BFI and other national and regional film archives. This is an untapped and potentially immense wealth of material that may become available to the public as diligent search is systematically carried out on it.To achieve its goal, EnDOW Community will create a community of volunteers with the skills to clear the rights of audio-visual copyright works by engaging identified cultural institutions (national and regional film archives) to use the online Diligent Search Tool. A dedicated recruitment campaign will be launched across the main UK film festivals and events. Online resources will be activated to assist the volunteers with the performance of diligent searches on a number of titles selected by BFI and the national and regional film archives, including video tutorials, webcasts and discussion forum. As a result of such engagement, the project will deliver a collection of about 300 right-cleared orphan works (films) that the hosting cultural institutions will be able to lawfully exploit and share online. The engagement and expertise generated by this one-year project has the potential to be extended to a wider range of archival material, so that cultural heritage institutions across all sectors can make the most of existing legislation on orphan works and cultural preservation.