The title of the conference is quite a mouthfull - ‘Strategies for Sustainable Access and Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online‘ - but the program is nonetheless more than promising.

Legal seminar on audiovisual archives and Intellectual Property Rights
Location: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum
Date: Thursday April 10, 2008
Time: 10.00 - 17.00 hrs
Legal issues on digitisation and reuse of audiovisual content. The legal seminar includes two workshops on orphan works and clearing rights, and secondly on archives and open content publishing.

Economies of the Commons Conference: Day I & II
Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
Friday 11 en Saturday 12 April , 2008.  10 - 18.00 hrs
for the packed program click here for the webpage or download the pfd-file Program Economies of the Commons Conference.

Main themes of the conference:
‘The conference will focus specifically on the creation of public audiovisual archives and their sustainability, analysing and comparing across different domains where they emerge. Specific legal and technological questions involved in the creation of these new type of digital repositories will also be addressed (among others Intellectual Property Rights and the problems of the structuring of data collections, retrieval and metadata, new approaches in social tagging, and more) while attempts will be made to bridge between different disciplinary discourses and social contexts.’
 

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