EU policy on access to cultural heritage and the protection of the public domain
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.60054/PEU.2022.9.236-248Ключови думи :
EU legislation, cultural heritage, public domain, digitisation, copyrightАбстракт
In November 2021 the European Commission issued a recommendation putting the digital platform Europeana at the heart of a common data space for cultural heritage. The Commission recommended that Member States accelerate the digitisation of all cultural heritage monuments, sites and artefacts for future generations, protect and preserve those at risk and stimulate their reuse in areas such as education, sustainable tourism and cultural creative sectors. There are however other sectoral policies and regulations at EU level that present a serious hindrance to the goal of mass digitisation and re-use, one of which is the strong rightsholder-centric approach of EU copyright law. The paper uses the normative, systematic and comparative legal methods to analyse the legal framework allowing the digitisation and exploitation of content in the public domain and the legal obstacles users, including institutional ones, have to surmount in doing so. It focuses on the solution for the protection of the public domain given by Article 14 of Directive (EC) 2019/790 on the copyright in the digital single market, its transposition in Bulgaria and the extent to which this new mechanism is likely to succeed in addressing the problems related to the effective use of public domain works and other subject-matter.
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