Copyright implications for the aggregation of audiovisual content in Greece

Malliari, Afrodite, Nitsos, Ilias, Zapounidou, Sofia and Doropoulos, Stavros Copyright implications for the aggregation of audiovisual content in Greece. Digital Library Perspectives, 2022. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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Purpose: This paper aims to attempt to provide an overview of the copyright legal framework for audiovisual resources in Europe and Greece, how Audiovisual (AV) content is currently licensed by Greek providers and how licenses or copyright exceptions enable its reuse. The motivation for this work was the development of an aggregation service for audiovisual resources in Greece, the Open AudioVisual Archives (OAVA) platform. Design/methodology/approach: Copyright licenses and exceptions in the European Union and in Greek Legislation have been thoroughly reviewed along with the reuse of content, based on the terms of Fair Use, Rights Statements and Creative Commons. Licensing issues for the most well-known aggregation services, such as Europeana, Digital Public Library of America, Trove, Digital New Zealand and the National Digital Library of India, have also been studied and considered. Audiovisual content providers in Greece have been recorded, and their licensing preferences have been analyzed. Pearson’s chi-square test was applied to test the relationship between the provider’s type, resources’ genre and licenses used. Findings: Despite the abundance of copyright legislation in the European Union and in Greece, audiovisual content providers in Greece seem to ignore it or find it difficult to choose the right license. More than half of them choose to publish their resources on popular audiovisual platforms using the default licensing option provided. Creative Commons licenses are preferred for audiovisual content that falls into the following categories: open courses (almost exclusively) and interviews and digital collection/research projects (about half of the content). Originality/value: This paper examines audiovisual content aggregation, in the EU and Greece, from a legal point of view. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, it is the first attempt to record and analyze the licensing preferences of Greek AV content providers.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: Audiovisual material, Content aggregators, Copyright issues, Licensing, Rights statements, Creative Commons, Greece, Οπτικοακουστικό υλικό, συσσωρευτές περιεχομένου, διανοητική περιουσία, αδειοδότηση, Ελλάδα
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HH. Audio-visual, Multimedia.
Depositing user: Sofia Zapounidou
Date deposited: 21 Nov 2022 07:04
Last modified: 21 Nov 2022 12:43
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/43698

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