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FAUK – ‘FOCUS’ EVENTS

 

Focus on Copyright and the AI Disruptor – 18th September ’25

FAUK’s online ‘FOCUS’ event investigated the hot topic of Copyright and AI A review and update on considerations for copyright and AI in film archives

The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technology on copyright is certainly a hot topic and a subject of academic, legal, and policy debate.

FAUK’s online ‘Focus’ event,  ‘COPYRIGHT & THE AI DISRUPTOR‘, drew a large audience from right across our Membership. Presented by Annie Shaw, the BFI’s Public Access Researcher, attendees were given an interesting and educational review and update on considerations for copyright and AI in film archives.

 

Focus on AI – 14th March ‘25
• Francis Jones (Head of Heritage & Archive, Northern Ireland Screen) presented the case study of NIS’s proof-of-concept project to evaluate the use of AWS Transcribe and Bedrock for generating captions, AI chapter generations and meaningful video summaries from archive media files, with the aim of streamlining the process of creating accurate, time-synced captions and summaries, enhancing accessibility, as well as improving user engagement.
• Alastair Bell & Ann Cameron, (respectively, Head of Moving Image, Sound & Music Collections and Curator, National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive) shared their experience working on their Moving Images project (as a finalist in the FutureScot AI Challenge competition 2024) to create a proof of concept discovery layer on collections, using AI tools to generate description and supply data for browsing tools. Issues covered include copyright & ethics, quality of data created, the search and browse interface experience and next steps for moving image collections.

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Focus on Collections & Diversity – 15th Nov ‘24
• The Northern Ireland Now contemporary collecting project (Elspeth Vischer, Project Coordinator)
• Archive film exhibition and diverse collections (Andy Robson, Consultant, Film Hub North)

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Focus on Inclusive Cataloguing – 30th April ‘24

• “Exploring the semantics of cataloguing as basis for revising catalogue entries” – Helen Mavin, Head of Photographs IWM

• Ukrainian Video Archives Society – TNA Archives Revealed Case Study – Megan McCooley, Collections Manager YFA/NEFA

• The Wessex Film & Screen Archive Cataloguing Resource Pack – Zoe Viney Burgess, Film Curator WFSA

 

Focus on Storage and Sustainability – 27th Sept ‘23
• Rob Ewart (Collections Care Manager, BFI Conservation Centre) – Case study on physical storage of the BFI National Archive

• Sean Kelly (Archive Education Technologist, EAFA) – Case study on storage at the East Anglian Film Archive

• Keir Powell-Lewis (Head of Environmental Sustainability, BFI) – Environmental Sustainability at the BFI

• Simon Clark (Business Development Director, iMetaFilm) – A sustainable way to save film?