How can best the EU support the European film

							How can best the EU support
 the European film heritage
        institutions?


  Mari Sol Pérez Guevara
 Unit Audiovisual and Media Policies
        European Commission
http://europa.eu.int/comm/avpolicy/
                 Legal Instruments


 Film Heritage Recommendation
  (11/2005)
    Member States are recommended to inform the Commission
      every two years of action taken in response to the
      Recommendation.

 1st implementation report
  (8/2008)
    http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/docs/reg/cinema/report/swp_en.pdf




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      Legal basis for Community action:
                    EC Treaty


Article 151 of the EC Treaty: cultural policy

151.2: Action by the Community shall be aimed at
       encouraging cooperation between Member States
       and, if necessary, supporting and supplementing
       their action in the following areas:
  ….
       - conservation and safeguarding of cultural
        heritage of European significance

151.4: The Community shall take cultural aspects into
       account in its action under other provisions of this
       Treaty, in particular in order to respect and to
       promote the diversity of its cultures.


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          Film Heritage Recommendation
             1st Implementation Report

Content:

   1. Review of relevant EU initiatives
   2. Summary of reports from 26 Member
      States. Identification of problems and
      best practices
   3. Conclusions




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1. Review of relevant EU initiatives

- EU Cinema Expert Group meetings
- Standardisation mandate to CEN on
  interoperability of film databases
- Framework contract on voluntary deposit
- Copy-right legislation
- MEDIA Pilot projects (MIDAS, European Film
  Treasures, Europe’s Finest)
- eContentplus Programme « European Film
  Gateway »
- Research projects: ED-Cine, PrestoPRIME
- Europeana
- Orphan works
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    2. Recommendation on Film
   Heritage / Summary of reports

                  De posit of cine matographic works by Me mbe r State s
                      (type of deposit scheme, based on reported information
                                      from 24 Member States)
                         3

                                                                Legal deposit for all works

                                                 10
                                                                Compulsory deposit of funded
                                                                works
                                                                Voluntary deposit


                 11




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       3. Recommendation on Film
          Heritage / Conclusions


9 points to consider by Film Heritage
   institutions:
1. Long-term strategies and annual plans
2. Checking compliance with deposit obligations
3. Voluntary deposit as a complement
4. Interoperability of film databases / making
   them accesible via the Internet
5. Restoration: partnerships with the commercial
   sector and other film archives

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        3. Recommendation on Film
           Heritage / Conclusions


9 points to consider by Film Heritage
   institutions:
6. Agreements with right-holders to promote
   cultural access to film heritage
7. Creation of specialised training at University
   level
8. Give priority to educational programmes and
   activities
9. Prepare for the challenges of the digitigal era

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          3. Recommendation on Film
             Heritage / Conclusions


              Challenges of the digital era
•       Collection / acquisition of digital material
        (distributed in cinemas or via new channels);
•       Storage / conservation of digital material,
        which could require regular migration to new
        formats or supports;
•       Applying digital technologies for restoration;
•       Giving access via internet to the collections,
        and related copyright issues;
•       Integration in www.europeana.eu
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    QUESTIONS TO FILM ARCHIVES




   Feedback on the first implementation
    report:
         What was useful? What can be improved?
   Second implementation report:
         Member States to report by November 2009. The
          Commission is preparing a questionnaire to help
          Member States to report. How should it be drafted?
         How to make of the second implementation report a
          useful tool for film archives? Format? Content?


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              KEY ISSUES FOR 2009

1.   Follow-up of the Commission Green Paper on Copy-right
     in the Knowledge economy
2.   Participation in European research projects and in MEDIA
     pilot projects
3.   Implementing the European standards on
     interoperability of film databases
4.   Signature of the ACE/FIAFP model contract on voluntary
     deposit
5.   Cinema Expert Group / Subgroup film heritage on 18
     June 2009
6.   Timely report on the implementation of the
     Recommendation (11/2009)
7.   Participation in the Commission’s study on public domain
     (www.rightscom.com)
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           CONTACT DETAILS



  Unit Audiovisual and Media Policies
   Directorate-General Information
          Society and Media
        European Commission

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