Fleur writes: Yes, another project! 
This time around I would like to draw your attention to a project entitled Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works, in short ARROW.
“The aim of the ARROW project is to help identify copyright holders of out-of-print works, to create European registers of orphan works and also to develop models for integrated access to charged and free digital content. Effort is being made to ensure that the project results are interoperable with the future European digital library “Europeana”. Source of this text: http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/arrow.htm
According to a document that was published on the European Commission website, the Arrow consortium involves six National and one University libraries; three publishers’ associations; one authors’ association; three technology developers and ISBN agencies; seven Reproduction Rights Organisations (RRO); and the three international organisations European Digital Library (EDL), Federation of European Publishers (FEP) and International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO). In addition the European Writers Congress (EWC) has been invited to attend the steering committee without being a formal partner. Read more by clicking here
More Information
* Press Release annoucing the launch of the project (d.d. 12/12/2008)
* What Can Google Books Do For Orphan Works?
