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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
This response challenges the recommendations around digitization and open access made by the 2018 Sarr-Savoy 'Report On the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics.' Signed by 108 scholars and practitioners, the response highlight the aspects or IPR and digital cultural heritage that must be considered during restitution efforts.
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Fine-tuning European copyright law to strike a balance between the rights of owners and users
This journal article argues that the EU Information Society Directive of 2001 does not achieve harmonisation of copyright law across the EU, using an analysis of the treatment of technological protection measures to demonstrate that the directive has been implemented differently in each member state.