RLUK_David: @TAC_NISO But NASA et al. doing mind-blowing stuff away from manned-flight. And even v old craft still sending back amazing data
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Bringing light into the digital ‘black hole’ of the 20th and 21st centuries
In 2009 two agencies – Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and the Collections Trust (CT) published one of the few empirical pieces of evidence on the scale and affects of orphan works on galleries, libraries, archives and libraries specifically and other organisations more broadly, entitled ‘In From The Cold'.
In 2011, RLUK, along with LIBER, Museums Galleries Scotland, Scottish Library and Information Council, and SCONUL have joined with the SCA and CT in an attempt to gauge the changes which have occurred since the original report was published by completing this online survey. The results will be shared with UK IPO, HMG, EC and European Parliament.
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Orphan works (works for which the rights holders are unknown or cannot be traced) represent a significant barrier to education, research and innovation. Their management requires disproportionate amounts of public funds at a time of austerity, and significant difficulties of tracing rights holders results a potential black hole of 20th and 21st century content.
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