Copyright and cultural heritage : preservation and access to works in a digital world / edited by Estelle Derclaye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Derclaye, Estelle, 1974-

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright.

Archival materials--Digitization--Law and legislation.

Archival materials.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thanks to digitisation and the Internet, preservation of and access to our cultural heritage - which consists of works protected by copyright and works in the public domain - have never been easier. This essential book examines the twin issues of the preservation of, and access to, cultural heritage and the problems copyright law creates and the solutions it can at the same time provide. The expert contributors explore the extent to which current copyright laws from Europe and beyond prevent or help the constitution of a centralized online repository of our cultural heritage. Provided legal re

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART I The European perspective; 1. A global digital register for the preservation and access to cultural heritage: problems, challenges and possibilities; 2. Registers, databases and orphan works; 3. Copyright protection for the restoration, reconstruction and digitization of public domain works; 4. Photography, copyright and the South Kensington experiment; 5. Archiving exceptions: where are we and where do we need to go?; PART II The U.S. perspective; 6. Archiving and preservation in U.S. copyright law

7. A central register of copyrightable works: a U.S. perspectivePART III Another way to preserve and access cultural heritage: the domaine public payant; 8. Preserving and accessing our cultural heritage: Argentina's experience through the domaine public payant; PART IV The cultural sector institution's perspective; 9. Preserving and accessing our cultural heritage - issues for cultural sector institutions: archives, libraries, museums and galleries; PART V The cultural heritage specialist's perspective

10. Friends or foes? Two ways of thinking on the relation between the tasks of cultural heritage institutions and the protection of copyrightConclusion; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-90860-X

9786612908606

1-84980-803-1

OCLC:

691239608