Swedish film online

The National Library of Sweden and the Swedish Film Institute have placed 300 archival films, reflecting the transformation of Swedish society, free to view, online. View the Filmarkivet resource here.

End of 16mm printing at Soho

A poignant and personal piece in the Guardian by Tacita Dean on the affect of digital supremacy on analogue artists.

Know Your German Cinema

via EFG
Filmportal.de has detailed credits of 75,000 German feature films
from 1895 till today. As of now, 8,000 titles are
covered in-depth, featuring synopses, reviews, photos or
posters. Moreover, filmportal.de lists over 168,000 names
relevant for German film and has over 4,600 biographies
available. In addition to this, extensive "Theme Worlds"
offer introductory texts on important periods and aspects
of German film history.

visit the filmportal

World Copyright Summit

What sounds like a formidable conference, including discussion of rights and income from audiovisual material.

7-8 June, Belgium

"Creating value in the digital economy

The World Copyright Summit is a truly international and cross-industry event addressing the future of the creative community and the entertainment business in the digital economy.
All stakeholders involved in creative industries – creation, licensing, usage, collective management, legislation and dissemination of intellectual property and creative content – now have a unique forum to exchange views on the value of creative works, the future of authors’ rights, the role of creators and their collective management organisations.

A two-day conference programme addressing key themes: create-connect-respect"

EU Standards work programme

Proposed work on EU standards on a wide range of innovations, including archive deposit of digital cinema (chapter 17) and epublishing (chapter 11).

Impact of digitisation study

The European Commission has awarded a contract to Deloitte
for assessing the impact of the digitisation of cultural heritage
in the EU. The work will last for 10 months, and the final report
is expected for end October 2011.

Permanent archives at the BBC

A new BBC archives policy begins the process of making some of their programmes permanently available via the web.

5 million things about Europeana

Work begins to load five million objects onto Europeana, including a good few from the National Library of Wales.
Press release here