data protection. National registries tend to be rather inflexible and non-profit organisations may not take the opportunity to do business.
For RC, a public-private partnership between an academic institution and a for-profit business co-operative of design and IT experts was found to be an ideal structure for running a registry. The co-operative is being steered by the general assembly, a board of directors, a controlling board and an agency for co-operatives. Additionally, an audit on public welfare (Gemeinwohlökonomie) has been conducted in 2011. All five levels guarantee high performance, effective conflict resolution and reasonable quality control.
Independently of the organisational structure, any registry must work out a shutdown scenario, which needs to be agreed with the users in the terms of use. An authority to issue global identifier scheme elements would probably be an independent organisation such as International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). That way, registries would efficiently back up confidentiality for all partners involved in the creative sector’s value chains, no matter which way copyright regulation evolves.
