Copyright implications for the aggregation of audiovisual content in Greece
Abstract
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 chisquare 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.
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