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The [https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office UK’s Intellectual Property Office] last week announced the launch of a [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-opens-access-to-91-million-orphan-works new orphan works licensing scheme].
[[File:Ada_Camp_logo.png|Right|thumb|200px|Logo for Ada Camp]]


This allows individuals and institutions wishing to use a work of intellectual property where the rights holder cannot be identified to apply for a licence from the IPO. Licences are awarded where the IPO is satisfied that the applicant conducted a “diligent” search for the rights holder, and they have paid a licensing and administration fee.
''This post was written by Roberta Wedge, Gender Gap Project Worker''


This scheme brings forward little that is new. The rule allowing re-use after diligent search has been part of copyright law in the UK for many years. The primary purpose of the new licences seems to be to provide greater certainty to re-users that the searches they have undertaken are sufficiently extensive to guarantee legal protection should the copyright owner come forward.
Ada Camp is a weekend-long event bringing together women in open technology and culture for mutual support. It was created by the [http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fadainitiative.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGSl7GzBTCqOpFZnyQWOLqIfINkdw Ada Initiative], which exists to support women in these fields.


Searches have to be exceptionally comprehensive before the Intellectual Property Office will certify them as ‘diligent’ and although there are new guidelines which will provide greater clarity for cultural institutions, the imposition of an official fee is concerning.
I attended Ada Camp Berlin (of which Wikimedia UK was a sponsor) on October 10-12, along with Daria Cybulska (and Rebecca Kahn, who works alongside WMUK and in our office, on behalf of the Open Coalition). It was held in the offices of Wikimedia Deutschland, which seemed to create a positive impression on all the participants I spoke to. This was the first Ada Camp held outside the United States (aside from the very first one, in Melbourne), and the 57 participants were a very international group, many based in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, and many with ties of upbringing, education, and experience around the globe. Roughly half were “technical” (software designers, coders, analysts, etc.) but the rest were not, having found their ways to careers in open tech through other ways.


Even with this new scheme in place orphan works can still not be easily used by the Wikimedia projects and the volunteers who write and curate them.
WMUK sponsored a welcome reception on Friday evening, which allowed the participants to begin to get to know each other. Some of them were already friends and colleagues; some others had met via the email exchanges and Twitter lists set up in the weeks before the event.


A real solution to the orphan works problem must await a more radical approach that goes beyond both this and the existing [http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/orphan_works/index_en.htm EU Orphan Works Directive].
Ada Camp itself is structured as an unconference, which means that the content is partially decided by the participants themselves on Saturday morning. The sessions proposed were a mix of “I have experience with X and want to share” to “I know that X exists and want to learn more”, where X could range from a type of software to an instance of harassment or exclusion.


We believe that this should be addressed as part of a more far-reaching review of copyright as a whole, at a national and European level. For example, a simple reduction in copyright terms would instantly make many works which are currently orphaned available for reuse.
The whole-group activity on Saturday morning, about Imposter Syndrome (self-doubt in one’s professional role), allowed the organisers time to collate these disparate proposals into a programme.
 
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You can see the recent Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU position paper on copyright reform – of which we are a signatory – [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Position_Paper_on_EU_Copyright here].
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