On June 18th, we hosted an online salon on the hollowing out of the Public Domain through cultural heritage laws with a particular focus on Italy.
In recent years, we have witnessed a number of problematic court cases around the commercial reuse of Public Domain works held by Italian cultural heritage institutions. COMMUNIA has recently published an independent expert opinion, raising questions about the compatibility of the Italian approach of cultural heritage protection with EU law, including Art. 14 of the CDSM Directive, as well as a policy paper on the same issue with recommendations for the European lawmaker.
For this COMMUNIA Salon, we were joined by the authors of the independent expert opinion, Giulia Dore and Giulia Priora. In a panel discussion moderated by Brigitte Vézina, the two researchers discussed their findings with scholar Andrea Wallace and answered questions from the audience.
On June 18th, we hosted our first online salon in 2024 on the hollowing out of the Public Domain through cultural heritage laws with a particular focus on Italy. In recent years there have been a number of problematic court cases around the commercial reuse of Public Domain works held by Italian cultural heritage institutions. […]
Today, COMMUNIA is releasing Policy Paper #20 on the right to use Public Domain heritage (also available as a PDF file), in which we address the restrictions imposed by a number of Member States on the use of reproductions of Public Domain works. The cultural heritage laws of Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Slovenia […]
On Tuesday, June 18th, 15:00-16:00 CEST, we invite you to an online salon on the alarming development of the hollowing of the Public Domain through cultural heritage laws with a focus on Italy. Under the Italian cultural heritage code, many uses of cultural heritage held in Italian collections are contingent on authorisation and the payment […]
Recent Italian courts cases concerning the reproduction of works held by Italian cultural heritage institutions ignore Article 14 of the CDSM Directive. Instead of following the intent of the directive to ensure that faithful reproductions of public domain works remain in the public domain, the Italian lawmaker extends new exclusive rights over public domain works […]
For more than seven decades, international law has consistently led countries to embrace culture as a global and cross-border value for humanity. The human right to cultural participation has become a pillar of protecting and empowering individuals and communities. At the EU level, the competence to legislate on cultural matters is mostly left to the […]
