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Resources and information for professionals who want to improve the quality of their collections data with reliable information around copyright, open access and rights statements.
Risk management remains important for cultural heritage institutions who are clearing rights and publishing their collections online, particularly for UK cultural heritage institutions which are no longer able to use the Orphan Works Directive as a basis for sharing their collections online. Naomi Korn offers advice on this approach!
About two years ago, the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive was adopted, obliging European Union Member States to ‘bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 7 June 2021’. On this date, we take a look at the progress of Member States, and at some of the policy choices they have made.
With the adoption of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive in 2019, a new solution for the making available online of works that are out of commerce was created. Member states are slowly moving forward with the transposition of the Directive, due on 7 June 2021.
The inDICES project is hard at work carrying out research into the impact of digitisation and intellectual property regulations on cultural heritage institutions. Colleagues from the project share the findings of a recent analysis on copyright for cultural heritage institutions in different countries.
