

- Titel
- The Greatest Films Never Seen
- Subtitel
- The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen
- Auteur
- Claudy Op den Kamp
- Prijs
- € 43,95 excl. BTW
- ISBN
- 9789462981393
- Uitvoering
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 186
- Taal
- Engels
- Publicatiedatum
- 10 - 09 - 2018
- Afmetingen
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open access
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- Serie
- Framing Film
- Partner
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
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- Download introductie
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- eBook PDF - € 0,00
Acknowledgements
Preface
THE ORPHAN IN A HANDBAG
An introduction to the film archive and intellectual property
The book's approach
The film archive: a brief history
Archival beginnings
Digitization
Intellectual property
Structure of the book
1 TERRA INCOGNITA
The Nederlands Filmmuseum / EYE Film Institute Netherlands
What's in a name?
Dichotomy I: Creating historical resonance
Dichotomy II: The need for re-categorization
2 A SWISS BANK
Re-categorization I - The embargoed film
The archive as rights holder
Third party rights holders: Fragile relations
Close-up: ALS TWEE DRUPPELS WATER ('LIKE TWO DROPS OF WATER')
The colourization debate
3 A HANDBAG
Re-categorization II - The orphan film
Close-up: De OVERVAL ('THE SILENT RAID')
The 'orphan works problem' and its causes
Definition, demarcation, and scope
Legal causes
Administrative causes
Proposed solutions to the orphan works problem
Legislative measures
Administrative measures
4 A VEHICLE OF POWER
Re-categorization III - The public domain film
Close-up: BEYOND THE ROCKS
What is the public domain?
The digital skew
The public domain and public access
The public domain and access to high-quality originals
5 A BIRTHPLACE
The begotten film
Found footage, legal provenance, and the 'aesthetics of access'
Institutional re-use
Non-institutional re-use
The question of the archive
'BITS & PIECES as synecdoche': a challenge to film history
6 THE POTENTIAL FOR HISTORY MAKING
Of accidents and activation
Close-up: The Paper Print Collection
Themes and tensions
Archival practice, and the 'activation of copyright'
Public domain status
The potential for (film) history making
The archive and 'doing' history
The 'research program'
CONCLUSION
The Brighton line
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Recensies en Artikelen
"When navigating digital access to archive films, copyright lawyers typically fetishize the law, while archivists tend to fear it. Claudy Op den Kamp invites a more nuanced response. Copyright is important, no doubt, but making meaning and doing history is also about tangible things, about places, policies, and — most importantly — people. This is an elegant and engaging book, a Catherine wheel of film history scholarship, throwing light and sparks in many directions." - Ronan Deazley, Professor of Copyright Law, Queen’s University Belfast
"This stylish book will be indispensable for everyone who cares about the future of the past. Grounded in deep scholarship and experience, it’s a case study in how copyright law shapes (or warps) cultural practice. While celebrating film preservation and the pleasures of working with found footage, Claudy Op den Kamp also reveals how pervasive anxieties over copyright compliance can hobble both memory institutions and filmmakers — and offers a bracing vision of the way forward." - Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law Emeritus, American University, Washington College of Law
"The Greatest Films Never Seen is a well-written exploration of the way film history is constructed in the contemporary film archive. Claudy Op den Kamp takes the reader on a rare journey into the collection policies of the film archive, by way of copyright issues
and the intellectual property system. She offers readers instructive and straightforward information about copyright, orphan films and archival policies, as well as providing a thoughtful and necessary meditation on history making in the film archive." - Janna Jones, Professor of Creative Media & Film, Northern Arizona University
Claudy Op den Kamp
The Greatest Films Never Seen
The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen
De onderstaande tekst is niet beschikbaar in het Nederlands en wordt in het Engels weergegeven.
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.
Auteur
Claudy Op den Kamp
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.