The participating institutions form a network and regard the following principles as a forward-looking agenda:

• Aims
  The aims are to secure, preserve, develop and make available audiovisual media and materials as an important cultural resource for the interested public: in particular for education, instruction, scholarship, research, teaching and art.
  
  Position Papers:
  
  • "Position Paper", 2010
  • "Perspektivpapier", October 2005
• Policy Recommendations
  
  • "Presenting the Audiovisual Heritage on the Internet", April 2011
  • "The Need to Regulate Young People’s Media Productions in the Framework of Media-Education Measures", October 2008
  • "Recommendations of the Network of Multimedia Resource Centres on Dealing with 'Orphan Works'", October 2007
• Press Releases
  
  • Press Release on Dealing with 'Orphan Works', December 2009 (PDF-document, 47 KB, in german only)
• Principles
  The network utilizes and links cultural and scholarly resources and services of archives, libraries, document centres, museums and research facilities in various locations.
  
  
• Networking and decentrality
  Advantages of the open network are
  • the developed and proven system of non-central resources management
  • access independent of location
  • networking of non-central institutions via modern communications technology and
  • concomitant systematic access to available audiovisual media.
• Forum
  The network serves the participating institutions as a forum of communication.
  
  

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