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Details of this orphan work
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Work details
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Applicant or licensee name:
National Maritime Museum
Applicant or licensee country:
United Kingdom
Application number:
OWLS000165-1
Application date:
08/03/2019
Status of application:
Licence Granted
Title or short description:
'The Road to Germany', circa 2015. A digitized diagram/map of how to travel from Turkey to Germany.It is in the possession of Josh Neufeld, who was emailed the map by Alia Malek, a journalist who was sent the map over Whatsapp by an anonymised Syrian refugee, ‘Muhanid’.
Full description:
This map is an abstract representation of a route from Turkey to Germany, which was frequently exchanged digitally between refugees, via social media (including Facebook and Whatsapp), in 2015. It is in the possession of Josh Neufeld, who was emailed the map by Alia Malek, a journalist who was sent the map over Whatsapp by an anonymised Syrian refugee, ‘Muhanid’. As part of our due diligence checks (for copyright) we liaised with the journalist Alia Malek, who wrote about the article in foreign policy magazine, Josh Neufeld the illustrator and Marie Gillespie, Lecturer at the Open University and no one knew who ‘Muhanid' might be.
Category:
Still visual art
Type of work:
Drawing
Museum, gallery, library or archive holding the work:
Unknown
Details and dates of publication, broadcast and/or distribution:
From 2015 onwards via social media forums such as WhatsApp and facebook. And then via websites in 2016: such as https://themuslimtimes.info/2016/01/29/the-road-to-germany-2400/ and https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/29/the-road-to-germany-2400-refugee-syria-migrant-germany-nonfiction-comic/
Uses
Free hand outs for live event, exhibition or similar |
Use in a live event, exhibition or similar |
In newsletter, bulletin, e-newsletter or e-bulletin |
In non-commercial promotional material – print and digital |
Digitise and make available on-line, including on social media |
Preservation purposes |
Use on stage or in performance |
Educational purposes – use in learning/ training materials, including e-learning |
Use in thesis/dissertation |
Personal use |
Known creators or right holders
Unknown
Known identifiers
eg International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
Unknown