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For more than seven decades, international law has consistently led countries to embrace culture as a…
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On 20 April 2023, the Italian Civil Court of first instance of Florence (Tribunale civile di Firenze) issued a decision that…
Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man (c. 1490). Pen and brown ink with wash over metalpoint on paper (34.4 x 24.5 cm), Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia.
In late 2022, the Court of Venice issued an…
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In August 2020, a review of the Orphan Works Directive (2012/28/EU), or OWD, was initiated by the…
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Part I of this post discussed the changes to copyright contract law and the new text and data mining exemption provisions that formed part of the 2021 copyright…
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It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage,…
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Part 1 of this post outlined augmented reality (AR) technology, its applications in the cultural heritage sector and its potential copyright implications. This part…
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When Sandro Botticelli depicted his beloved Simonetta Cattaneo de Vespucci as main character of “the Birth of Venus” back in the fifteenth century, he possibly…
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Almost 3 years after the adoption of the Digital Single Market (Directive (EU) 2019/790) (CDSM Directive), its transposition by the Member States (MS) has proved…
