'Laziness by Ramón Casas, provided by the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, available here'
In August 2020, a review of the Orphan Works Directive (2012/28/EU), or OWD, was initiated by the…
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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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This is the second of a set of two blog posts (see Part 1 here) which analyses the limitations to parties’ freedom to determine the law applicable to contracts…
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The online exploitation of content protected by copyright inherently entails cross-border aspects. Thus, the digital context of copyright exploitation contracts…
Earlier this week, the European Commission published a recommendation for a common European data space for cultural heritage.
As Executive Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age,…
The French Act No. 2012-287 of 1 March 2012 ‘on the digital exploitation of unavailable books of the twentieth century’ created a specific compulsory collective management system for out-of-commerce…
Playing Catch 22 with cultural heritage is quite simple: since cultural heritage institutions hardly ever are in a position to digitize their collection because of a lack of financial resources,…
On the 28 of October the European Commission adopted a Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation. The Recommendation follows up on a…
