11.04.2022

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), through the European Observatory on Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights (the Observatory), in collaboration with Europeana, is organizing the Out-of-commerce Works Portal Datathon event.

The main objective of the Datathon event is to raise awareness of the existence of the new out-of-commerce works solution available under the Directive (EU) 2019/790 with the aim to facilitate the digitization of out-of-commerce works.

The Directive (EU) 2019/790 introduces a legal framework to support the cultural heritage institutions in the digitisation and cross-border dissemination of out-of-commerce works. Information about works has to be recorded in a public single online portal, the creation and management of which has been entrusted to the EUIPO. The Out-of-commerce works portal (the Portal), launched to the public on the 7th of June 2021 and is the main publicity measure of this new regime.

The event is open for participation to all cultural heritage institutions, potential holders of out-of-commerce works, i.e. publicly accessible libraries or museums, archives or film or audio heritage institutions established in EU Member States.

The information sessions will be held on 26 April, 10 May and 24 May 2022, each day from 10.30 to 12.00, online via Zoom platform, while the final closing event will take place on the 28 June, 2022, in a hybrid form, in EUIPO, Alicante.

For the Out-of-commerce Works Portal see here.

Το participate in the event fill in the registration form here by 19 April 2022 .

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