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Cultural Heritage Digitization and Copyright Issues

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2018)

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Abstract

In recent years, it has become common knowledge that culture is the main component for people’s creative communication as well as for the elimination of social differences and political contradictions, the encounter for people of different racial, ethnic, religious hues in a common place, leading thus to the achievement of world peace.

Furthermore, the field of culture under proper management, can contribute substantially to improving the economic conditions of different countries, considering the multiple fields of production and dissemination potential of diverse cultural products which, combined with the explosive and rapid growth of telecommunications and the internet, create a considerable number of new jobs.

As a result: the growing interest in this sector. However, the legal framework in which the digitization and management of cultural heritage should develop is not always clear enough or, even when it is clear, it is overturned by modern trends, which, for the sake of technology, become massive.

It is therefore important to know basic relevant notions and principles for navigating and acting in a politically correct way in the vast and diverse universe of civilization: the present study constitutes an attempt both to specify the notions of cultural heritage and copyright, as well as to detect the possibilities and limitations of digitization and management of cultural heritage as defined by the current legal framework.

The aim is the succinct quote of the afore-mentioned, in order that this project will serve as a concise manual easily understood and useful mainly to people not specialized in law.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This is a Convention with the force of law, signed in Paris on November 17, 1970 between the Member States and accepted by the General Conference of the United Nations Organization for the Instruction, Science and Education.

  2. 2.

    United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.

  3. 3.

    The present study was implemented within the framework of the Postgraduate Program Studies «Advanced Informatics and Computing Systems/Digital Culture»/University of Piraeus, Subject «Copyright and Digital Media» under the supervision of Vagena E., Ph.D., Lecturer of the Course and Legal Counselor at the time at the Hellenic Copyright Organization and Associate Professor Vergados D., PhD.

  4. 4.

    See par. No 3 of the present paper.

  5. 5.

    According to Par. 1 of the EU Directive of 27/10/2011, the following are defined as cultural material: printed material (books, magazines, newspapers), photographs, museum objects, archival objects, audio and audiovisual material, monuments and archaeological sites.

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Chroni, A. (2018). Cultural Heritage Digitization and Copyright Issues. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11196. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01762-0_34

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