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Museums in the Digital Age: insight from the Pinakotheken
Douglas McCarthy et al,
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Entries in this section of the Copyright Cortex include both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed research, exploring the law of copyright and its effects on policy and practice in a variety of cultural heritage contexts. From managing the risks associated with making orphan works available online to claiming copyright in digital surrogates of public domain works, this section catalogues data, evidence, and commentary across a wide range of topics.
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Paris Musées embraces open access
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2020
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Revisiting Access to Cultural Heritage in the Public Domain: EU and International Developments
Andrea Wallace et al, 2020
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The case for open access
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2020
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Inside the Museum is Outside the Museum — Thoughts on Open Access and Organisational Culture
Karin Glasemann, 2020
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Mana taonga, Mana tangata
Zoë Richardson et al, 2020
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Open by default, closed by exception: Auckland Museum’s five-year journey to open its collections online
Victoria Passau et al, 2020
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The Smithsonian Goes Open Access
Michael Weinberg, 2020
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21st-Century Diffusion with Smithsonian Open Access
Effie Kapsalis, 2020
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Celebrating Three Years of Open Access at The Met
Sofie Andersen et al, 2020
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Engaging the Data Science Community with Met Open Access API
Jennie Choi, 2020
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Show Your Work
Benjamin Korman et al, 2020
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Open for the world — open access at Taiwan’s National Palace Museum
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2020
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Making Copyright Determinations for Open Access in GLAMs
Anne M. Young, 2020
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The First Anniversary of CMA Open Access: Benefiting People Now and Forever
Jane Alexander, 2020
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Keeping digitised works in the public domain: how the copyright directive makes it a reality
Andrea Wallace et al, 2020
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Copyright in the Digital Single Market: Europeana’s Next Steps
Fallon, Julia, 2019
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Insight from a global survey of open GLAM
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2019
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Giz it: A journey in reuse
Siobhan Leachman et al, 2019
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Opening up to the world — developing the image policy of the Pinacoteca di Brera
Marina Cotugno, 2019
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The true costs of research and publishing
Kathryn M. Rudy, 2019
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Image Copyright and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities
Dr Lorraine de la Verpillière, 2019
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Sharing cultural heritage in India
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2019
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Inside a New Museum (Part 1): Digging Into Data
George Oates, 2019
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Inside a New Museum (Part 2): Navigating Contemporary Copyright
George Oates, 2019
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Open access arrives at the Lenbachhaus
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2019
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The Great Wave: what Hokusai’s masterpiece tells us about museums, copyright and online collections today
Douglas McCarthy, 2019
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Seven years and still going - how we're improving the accuracy of rights statements in Europeana data
Julia Fallon, 2019
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Open Access Scope in Open GLAM
Douglas McCarthy, 2019
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OpenGLAM principles: ways forward to open access for cultural heritage
Sandra Fauconnier, 2019
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Licensing policy and practice in Open GLAM
Douglas McCarthy, 2019
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Doing the Rights Thing: Copyright and Open Collections at M+
Tom Morgan, 2019
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Uncovering the global picture of Open GLAM
Douglas McCarthy, 2019
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Response to the 2018 Sarr-Savoy Report: Statement on Intellectual Property Rights and Open Access relevant to the digitization and restitution of African Cultural Heritage and associated materials
Mathilde Pavis et al, 2019
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Open access arrives at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2019
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Beyond Digitization: Planning for Open Access Collections
Megan Paqua, 2018
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Museums in the Digital Age: Opening up at Birmingham Museums Trust
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2018
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Stepping Beyond Libraries: The Changing Orientation in Global GLAM-Wiki
Alexander D. Stinson et al, 2018
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Searching, Browsing, and Filtering Open Access Content in Digital Collections
L. Kelly Fitzpatrick, 2018
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EnDOW Report 3: Current Best Practices among Cultural Heritage Institutions when Dealing with Copyright Orphan Works and Analysis of Crowdsourcing Options
Victoria Stobo et al, 2018
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Strategy and open data at Wellcome Collection
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2018
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Museums in the Digital Age: insights from the Slovak National Gallery
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2018
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Museums in the Digital Age: insights from the Mauritshuis
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2018
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Hello world! The Finnish National Gallery opens up its collections
Douglas McCarthy et al, 2018
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The Accuracy of Rights Statements on Europeana.eu
Judith Blijden, 2018
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Communicating Use and Reuse in the Digital Collection Interface
L. Kelly Fitzpatrick, 2018
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Digital collections, open data and the boundaries of openness: a case study from the National Galleries of Scotland
Jen Ross et al, 2018
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MKG Collection Online: The potential of open museum collections
Antje Schmidt, 2026
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Why the Metropolitan Museum of Art is embracing open access
Camille Tenneson et al, 2017
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Celebrating Six Months of Open Access
Loic Tallon, 2017
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EnDOW Report 2: Requirements for Diligent Search in 20 European Countries
Aura Bertoni et al, 2017
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Introducing Open Access at The Met
Loic Tallon, 2017
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With Enough Eyeballs All Searches are Diligent: Mobilizing the Crowd in Copyright Clearance for Mass Digitization
Maurizio Borghi et al, 2016
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3D printing Jurassic Park: Copyright law, cultural institutions, and makerspaces
Matthew Rimmer, 2016
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Cultural Heritage & New Media: A Future for the Past
Ann Marie Sullivan, 2016
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How user-friendly are museum image rights?
Claire Voon, 2016
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3D Scanning: A World Without Copyright
Michael Weinberg, 2016
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The Impact of Open Access on Galleries, Libraries, Museums, & Archives
Effie Kapsalis, 2016
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EnDOW Report 1: Requirements for Diligent Search in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Italy
Marcella Favale et al, 2016
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Cultural Heritage Online? Settle It in the Country of Origin of the Work
Lucie Guibault, 2015
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A Copyright Snapshot: the Impact of New Copyright Legislation on Information Professionals
Emily Stannard, 2015
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Copyright Literacy in the UK: a survey of librarians and other cultural heritage sector professionals
Chris Morrison et al, 2015
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Cultures of Visual Art Copyright: Artists - Authors - Aliens
Grischka Petri, 2015
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Enclosing the public domain: The restriction of public domain books in a digital environment
Alex Clark et al, 2014
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The digitisation of cultural heritage: originality, derivative works and (non) original photographs
Thomas Margoni, 2014
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Democratising the Rijksmuseum
Joris Pekel, 2014
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Copyright at the Museum: Using the Publication Doctrine to Free Art and History
Deborah R. Gerhardt, 2014
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Museums' claims of copyright in digital reproductions of public domain works of art - a conflict with the right to access culture?
Tove Andersson, 2014
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Diamond open access and open peer review: An analysis of the role of copyright and librarians in the support of a shift towards open access in the legal domain
Esther Hoorn, 2014
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Archives and Copyright: Developing an Agenda for Reform
Ronan Deazley et al, 2014
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Copyright's Cultural Turn
Anupam Chander et al, 2013
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The Hold in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
Rebecca J. Rosen, 2013
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How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared
Paul J. Heald, 2013
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Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access
Kristin Kelly, 2013
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Copyright issues facing early stages of digitization projects
Eleonora Rosati, 2013
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The Myth of European Term Harmonisation: 27 Public Domains for the 27 Member States
Christina Angelopoulos, 2012
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MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia
Robinson Meyer, 2012
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An end to bad heir days: The posthumous power of the literary estate
Gordon Bowker, 2012
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Abandoning the Orphans: An Open Access Approach to Hostage Works
Lydia Pallas Loren, 2012
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Finding a Home for Orphans: Google Book Search and Orphan Works Law in the United States and Europe
Katharina de la Durantaye, 2011
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E-Reserves Permissions and the Copyright Clearance Center: Process, Efficiency, and Cost
J. Christopher Holobar et al, 2011
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Abandonment, Copyright and Orphaned Works: What Does it Mean to Take The Proprietary Nature of Intellectual Property Rights Seriously?
Emily Hudson et al, 2011
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Due Diligence, Futile Effort: Copyright and the Digitization of the Thomas E. Watson Papers
Maggie Dickson, 2010
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Estimating the economic impact of mass digitization projects on copyright holders: Evidence from the Google Book search litigation
Hannibal Travis, 2010
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Extended Collective Licenses and the Nordic Experience: It's a Hybrid but is it a Volvo or a Lemon?
Thomas Riis et al, 2010
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Art Image Copyright and Licensing: Terms and Conditions Governing Reproduction and Distribution
Melissa A. Brown et al, 2010
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Assessment of the Orphan works issues and Costs for Rights Clearance
Anna Vuopala, 2010
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Art Image Copyright and Licensing: Compilation and Summary of Museum Policies
Melissa A. Brown et al, 2010
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The Orphan Works Problem: The Copyright Conundrum Of Digitizing Large-Scale Audiovisual Archives, And How To Solve It
Stef van Gompel et al, 2010
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Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technology
Matthew Sag, 2009
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Everything Is Transformative: Fair Use and Reader Response
Laura A. Heymann, 2008
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Fine-tuning European copyright law to strike a balance between the rights of owners and users
Marcella Favale, 2008
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Cultural Institutions, Digitisation and Copyright Reform
Andrew F. Christie, 2008
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Copyright in the Real World: Making Archival Material Available on the Internet
Jean Dryden, 2008
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Copyright and Creativity
Dennis S. Karjala, 2008
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Primary Sources on Copyright (1450 - 1900)
Ronan Deazley et al, 2008
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Without Walls: Copyright Law and Digital Collections in Australian Cultural Institutions
Emily Hudson et al, 2007
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After 'Bridgeman': Copyright, Museums, and Public Domain Works of Art
Robin J. Allan, 2007
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Authors v. Archivers: The Copyright Infringement Battle Over Web Pages
Kinari Patel, 2007
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Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age
Hilary Ballon et al, 2006