英文摘要 |
Since 1998, the Taiwan e-learning and digital archives program (TELDAP) under the National Science Council has enabled museums and archives to provide online public access to their collections through digitization. However, if users want to use multiple digitalized collections at a time, they must seek licensing from each respective archive, which is a time-consuming process without complete information. The topic of this paper is the establishment of a joint licensing mechanism for museums for images (still images). By studying the joint licensing mechanism (bpk Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, “bpk”) of museums in a major worldwide images licensing market, Germany, and reviewing its market environment, development stages, organization forms, business models, and legal issues, this paper order to reflect on feasible ways for similar implementation in Taiwan from the aspects of law and business operation. From a legal perspective, Germany provides photographs with the complete safeguard in copyright and neighboring right. For public domain works, the control right for photos of building could be derived from the ownership of the land according to jurisprudence, in addition, the copyright law provides the first publisher or transmitter of a unpublished work with a neighboring right of 25 years. Hence, this paper recommends amendments in three discussion topics in Taiwan, including creativity of photographic works, typographical design right and the legal basis of licensing for public-free works. From a business operation aspect, this paper suggests to emulate the bpk model, hence start developing licensing mechanism from archives containing high market value images. Following TELDAP marketing and brand image of “Exhibition of Cyber Island, Taiwan (ECIT),“ this mechanism shall provide museums and users with excellent services. One by one, each other archives will voluntarily join. The mechanism also establishes a collective management society for artistic and photographic works and a market survey organization of licensing price. |