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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Context Copyright can be challenging for cultural institutions (or “GLAM“ for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) when pursuing digitization and dissemination activities, as copyright governs whether a given work can be used and if so, how (as shown in recent studies for museums , archives or libraries ). Proposal 8.

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Titleless Tales of the Headless

LexBlog IP

The court found that although “[n]either institution maintains comprehensive records of its manuscript holdings,” the government had sufficiently proven ownership by “cobbling together bits and pieces of evidence.” This underscores the criticality of due diligence prior to acquiring artworks, especially older pieces.