Decision processes and complete lists of sources for diligent searches in 20 EU Member States are available below. We combined all decision process into downloadable poster. We recommend this to be printed on A0.

CountryWritten worksAV WorksPhonogramsSource list
AustriaPDFPDFPDFList
BelgiumPDFPDFPDFList
CyprusPDFPDFPDFList
Czech RepublicPDFPDFPDFList
EstoniaPDFPDFPDFList
FrancePDFPDFPDFList
GermanyPDFPDFPDFList
GreecePDFPDFPDFList
IrelandPDFPDFPDFList
ItalyPDFPDFPDFList
LithuaniaPDFPDFPDFList
LuxembourgPDFPDFPDFList
the NetherlandsPDFPDFPDFList
PolandPDFPDFPDFList
PortugalPDFPDFPDFList
RomaniaPDFPDFPDFList
SlovakiaPDFPDFPDFList
SpainPDFPDFPDFList
SwedenPDFPDFPDFList
UKPDFPDFPDFList

The above downloadable decision processes, intended to determine whether a certain work or other subject matter vested with copyright or neighbouring rights is an orphan work in light of the EU Orphan Works Directive (Directive 2012/28/EU) are part of the Heritage Plus project EnDOW (Enhancing access to 20th Century cultural heritage through Distributed Orphan Works clearance).

They are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

You are free to:

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To use the work please attribute the work like this:
<Orphan Works Decision process> created by EnDOW (diligentsearch.eu) licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Technology

diligentsearch.eu is build upon existing open source technology that makes outofcopyright.eu available. It facilitates decision making processes to do a diligent search according the EU Orphan Work directive.

The tools that make this platform possible is licensed under a GNU GPL V3 license and available via Github: https://github.com/Kennisland/diligentsearch.eu