出版社：Law Department of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies
摘要：The current technological and scientific revolution taking place within the largercontext of knowledge and innovation based society and economy has changed all aspects oflife, including those related to cultural content consumption, creation, access anddistribution. Although art galleries, libraries, archives and museums will continue to existand function in a physical form, there has been noticed a trend is to preserve and provideaccess to world cultural heritage by means of digital libraries. Among the Europeanobjectives included in the Europe 2020 Strategy we find the digitisation of cultural contentand the development of a library that can store and preserve European culture –Europeana. The main objective of this paper is that of debating the main stakes of access todigitised cultural content, such as it is found in digital libraries, A particular focus is set onthe issue of intellectual property rights. The study specifically refers to the case of theEuropean Digital Library, Europeana. The main scientific research method used in thepaper is the critical analysis of IP legal regulations. Thus, we debate the main implicationsof these regulations for the process of digitisation, and we next identify the main currentlegal opportunities for and obstacles in the way of cultural content digitisation.
关键词：intellectual property rights; digitisation; cultural content; Europeana.
