The review of the DSM Directive is just around the corner. To mark the occasion, we’ve invited several experts to reflect on the issues the Directive aimed to fix—but didn’t. Maarten Zeinstra’s guest post on the failure of Article 8 kicks off this series. With Article 8 of the DSM Directive, we imagined lowering the […]
In 2012 the European Parliament adopted the Directive on ‘certain permitted uses of orphan works by cultural heritage institutions’. The directive intends to fill the gap between the mission of cultural heritage institutions to share cultural works to citizens, and the complex, costly, and sometimes impossible task of locating rightsholders to get permission for online […]
Works that have fallen into the public domain after their term of copyright protection has elapsed can be freely used by everybody. In theory that means that these works can be reused by anyone for any purpose which includes commercial exploitation. In theory the public domain status increases access to our shared knowledge and culture […]
