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Orphan works, or artworks for which no copyright holder is traceable, pose a growing problem for museums, archives, and other heritage institutions. As they come under more and more pressure to digitize and share their archives, they are often hampered by the uncertain rights status of items in their collections.
The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen uses the prism of copyright to reconsider human agency and the politics of the archive, and asks what the practical implications are for educational institutions, the creative industries, and the general public.
List of contents
Acknowledgements, Preface, THE ORPHAN IN A HANDBAG, 1. TERRA INCOGNITA, 2. A SWISS BANK, ALS TWEE DRUPPELS WATER ('LIKE TWO DROPS OF WATER'), 3. A HANDBAG, OVERVAL ('THE SILENT RAID'), 4. A VEHICLE OF POWER, BEYOND THE ROCKS, 5. A BIRTHPLACE, 6. THE POTENTIAL FOR HISTORY MAKING, CONCLUSION, Notes, Filmography, Bibliography, Index
About the author
Claudy Op den Kamp is Lecturer in Film and faculty member at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management at Bournemouth University, UK, and Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne Law School, Australia.
