Report: WIPS6 Conference in Szeged

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Author: István Harkai

Photos by Isabel Beirigo

May has been a busy month of conferences for participants of the reCreating Europe research consortium. We presented at the ‘Open Up Museums!’ workshop in Trento, at the ECS Annual Conference in Nottingham, and concluded this series in Szeged on 9-10 June at the sixth Workshop on Intellectual Property (WIPS6). Although the conference was mainly in-person, due to anomalies in European air traffic, several speakers were unable to arrive, so the conference became a hybrid event. This year, a significant part of the event was dedicated to the GLAM sector and cultural heritage issues, as well as to the intersection of consumer protection and copyright law. The event featured two GLAM@HOME panels and a GLAM@HOME Training session, which were streamed and recorded online to the public.

Take a look at the recording of these panel sessions here.

Organiser Péter Mezei welcomes participants and speakers to Szeged

Day 1 – GLAM@Home

Following the welcoming words of the main organizer and host of the event, Péter Mezei, the GLAM@HOME Panel started with an online presentation by keynote speaker, Maurizio Borghi (University of Torino), on rethinking the Commons in the era of data capitalism. Maurizio Borghi was followed by Camille Françoise (Creative Commons), who shared her thoughts on the future of open culture, with a copyright policy outlook.

Giulia Dore, Marta Arisi (University of Trento) and Pelin Turan (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) (all members of the H2020 ReCreating Europe WP5 GLAM research group) provided insights into a comparative EU analysis of the freedom of panorama and the reproduction of public domain art. The first panel ended with a presentation by Cristiana Sappa (IÉSEG School of Management) and Enrico Bondio (City University) on the challenges and opportunities for copyright stakeholders in the GLAM sector in the context of digitalisation.

The second GLAM@HOME Panel began with Svjetlana Ivanović (University of East Sarajevo), who addressed the issue of accessibility and digitisation of out-of-commerce works. She was followed by Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven), who analysed the intersection between non-commercial works and abandonware video games. Bohdan Widła (Jagiellonian University) closed the panel with a presentation on the question of scientific editions and first editions in the digital single market.

After the lunch break, a workshop-style session followed, namely the GLAM@HOME Training, where Péter Mezei and Ioanna Lapatoura (University of Nottingham) gave a training on NFTs and cultural heritage preservation, followed by the copyright practice of Francisco Duque Lima and Marta Arisi, who introduced the audience to the application of participatory problem-solving tools in the cultural heritage sector.

Franciso Duque Lima and Marta Arisi discuss the GLAM Training session

The first day ended with the ‘Junior Track’. Roya Pary Bouery (University Lyon 3 Jean Moulin) presented her research results on the restitution of artefacts looted during World War II and the role of the GLAM sector. Wojciech Biernacki (Adam Mickievicz University) talked about the relevance of the distinction of data, information, and knowledge in the light of exchange of non-personal data. The last speaker of the day was Flóra Anna Gubicz (Hungarian Intellectual Property Office), who shared her thoughts about whether the out-of-commerce regime will be a”game-changer” in the process of mass digitalisation.

Day 2 – Overlaps between Consumer Protection and IP Law

The second day of the conference was dedicated to overlaps between consumer protection and intellectual property. Kacper Szkalej (Lund University) theorised about the exhaustion of the making available right regarding the consumptive use of legal digital content. Simon Geiregat (Ghent University) shared his thoughts about the needs and wills of digital content consumers. The last segment was dedicated to the topics of IP and technology. Ioannis Revolidis (University of Malta), Radim Charvát (Masaryk University) and Antoni Rubí Puig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) dedicated their presentations to the questions and problems raised by Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) from different perspectives. The session was closed by Anikó Grad-Gyenge (BME Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences), who talked about the impact of the development of EU law on the exclusive nature of copyright law.

A participant questions the speakers during a panel session

WIPS6 was a fantastic opportunity to host the series face-to-face in Szeged, for the first time in three years. Despite the challenges, the workshop successfully brought together junior and senior academics to discuss, debate and explore current issues in intellectual property law.

 

 

We look forward to welcoming you next year for WIPS7!

 

 

Participants and speakers enjoy lunch together at the MuSe Museum cafe, surrounded by the mountains of Trento, Italy.

Report: Open Up Museums! Workshop, Trento/Rovereto

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This May (26-27 May, 2022) saw a return to travelling for the reCreating Europe project, as project partners headed to Italy for the first of two GLAM @ Home workshops – ‘Open Up Museums! Prospects and Challenges of Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion’, organised as a collaboration between projects DANCING, inDICEs. A valley enclosed on all sides by looming mountains is not the most obvious setting for a workshop which focuses on ‘openness’ – but the surroundings gave a dramatic backdrop to the two-day workshop. Amongst the full programme, participants enjoyed the superb hospitality of the two host museums – MuSe (Trento) and Mart (Rovereto).

The below report summarises the workshop content, and is interspersed with the thoughts of speakers and attendees who were asked to reflect on the question – ‘What does an ’open museum’ mean to you’?

Day 1 – MuSe (Trento)

Panel 1: Museums, intellectual property, and access to culture (Author: Giulia Dore)

‘An open museum is a museum that can listen to every kind of people, that can communicate with every kind of public, understand the requirements of different people and constantly tries to create, innovate and develop in terms of accessibility. An open museum can be considered as a house for everyone.’  – Patrizia Famà

The two-day-long program started with the Museums, intellectual property, and access to culture panel, which was opened by Patrizia Famà, who highlighted the importance of the cultural preservation institutions. Chaired by Giulia Dore (University of Trento), the opening panel explored the concepts of openness and access to culture in relation to the digital mission of museums. After an opening welcome from Roberto Caso (University of Trento), speakers highlighted the features of an extremely complex regulatory framework focusing on copyright, cultural heritage law and data management, discussing the challenges and opportunities of specific policies aimed at making museums open to all.

Kristina Petrasova (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) brought her experience as a researcher and cultural heritage practitioner to explore the choice of implementing open policies in the cultural sector.

Marta Arisi (University of Trento) illustrated one of the most controversial tasks of cultural heritage establishments, that is access and re-use of cultural data across copyright and data protection laws.

Barbara Pasa (University of Venice Iuav) deepened the discussion around the concept of artistic reuse of works exemplifying the carousel rides of CHIs that collide with their attempts to perform their mission to the fullest.

Fiona Macmillan (Birkbeck College, University of London) called for an inclusive community approach to cultural heritage, to be understood as the result of a social process where people enjoy, participate and share, hence giving true substance to the concept of open culture.

‘An open museum is a museum without restrictions, especially in terms of copyright law, which is imposed on museums that try to fulfill their public mission. As long as museums can do what the society makes them do, like preserve and share their resources.’ – Konrad Gliściński

Konrad Gliściński (Jagiellonian University/Centrum Cyfrowe) argued that copyright needs to adjust itself not to frustrate but rather to facilitate the many and increasingly more ambitious missions of CHIs.

Particicpants of the workshop are sat in a conference room, watching the speakers presenting at the front of the room.

A lively discussion around the question ‘How can CHIs concretely play an active and participatory role in the process of redesigning copyright?’ closed the panel with a message of hope: that they should all be aware, trained and fearless of tackling this issue together.

Panel 2: Barriers to access to digital culture for vulnerable groups, inclusivity and the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty (Author: Lorenzo Beltrame)

‘An open museum is means to bring culture to everyone, everywhere, in every condition. This is why we commit spreading out our culture and the Egyptian culture as a means of communication with everyone around the world. This is why we involve minority communities and people who live in difficult situations, like prisons and hospitals, to virtually visit our museum. We bring the museum to the people with online collections and activities.’ – Alessia Fassone

This panel addressed issues of accessibility to cultural resources for vulnerable groups. Obstacles to full access experienced by people with visual impairments, blind people, minorities, marginalized groups and people with disabilities were discussed by the panelists.

Katie Donnellan, Delia Ferri and Noelle Higgins, from Maynooth University, presented their empirical research on the barriers to access to digital culture for minority groups and people with disabilities. Their research showed how, notwithstanding an improved sensibility in making cultural resources more accessible to vulnerable groups, issues of underrepresentation, cultural appropriation and stereotypes are still present. Their research also illustrated how there is a limited understanding of copyright law as a barrier and patchy knowledge about the Marrakesh Treaty and about how it can improve accessibility through copyright exception.

Giulia Rossello, from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, presented her empirical research on the perceived benefits of the Marrakesh Treaty experienced by people with visual impairment in six European countries. Her research has brought evidence of how perceived benefits are linked to the type of visual impairment and the technology used.

‘An open museum is a place where I feel welcome, triggered and inspired to discover people’s stories and to somehow see my own history reflected. It’s a place where not only I am welcome, but also all people I can think of, to feel no hindrance to walk together with me, and where I don’t feel the pressure to leave. An open museum is ideally a 24/7 store where all people can come and ‘shop’ for a cultural experience that serves their passion for culture.’ – Sofie Taes

The speakers of Panle 2 giving their presentationsSofie Taes, from Catholic University of Leuven, discussed the topic of misrepresentation and cultural bias embedded in the metadata of archived photographs from the point of view of archival curators.

Finally, Alessia Fassone and Federica Facchetti, from Museo Egizio in Turin, presented some examples of active inclusion of marginalized groups (like immigrants and prisoners) in the cultural activities of their museum.

Training session on legal and practical aspects related to digitization (Author: Marta Arisi)

‘An open museum for me is a museum where I can go anytime with my friend with disabilities or with a baby carriage, or with my luggage if I travel, and I don’t feel any problems with that.’ – Irina Tekhucheva

The training session was a thrilling moment of the GLAM@Home Workshop! Here, participants of different backgrounds and ages worked together to put the ideas and concepts of the morning session into practice. This took place in the impressive learning space at Muse, Trento.

In the first part, Maria Tartari and Francesca Manfredini from inDICEs explored the project and introduced its exciting participative tool – the Open Observatory. We learned how CHIs can build a participative digitisation strategy, exploring different venues and tips that truly enable Culture 3.0.

Later, Giulia Dore and Marta Arisi, as part of the reCreating Europe WP5 team from University of Trento, focusing on GLAM, acted as facilitators while groups worked to solve a case scenario. The case is available through the reCreating Europe stakeholders platform. We discussed copyright issues arising from a museum’s project for a collective digitisation campaign and art project, using public domain works and photographs thereof. Please feel free to contribute – follow-up on this controversial and fascinating debate is always welcome!

Day 2- Mart (Rovereto)

For the second day of the conference, the whole team travelled to the town of Rovereto. Keeping accessibility to culture in mind, the organisers created braille programmes, invited sign language interpreters, and live Italian-English translation was offered.

The programme was opened by Sara Di Giorgio (Ministero della Cultura) and Aldo Grassini (President of Museo Omero) who gave the first keynote speech of the day, discussing the importance of broadening the definition of cultural interaction to allow blind people access to cultural heritage.

 

Panel 3: Fostering Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities in Cultural Organisations: Legal Tools, Experiences and Best Practices (Author: Delia Ferri)

‘An open museum is accessible to all members of society, and especially vulnerable and marginalised groups, like persons with disabilities and persons belonging to minorities.’ – Katie Donnellan

The third panel of the workshop focused on fostering accessibility for persons with disabilities in cultural organisations. Chaired by Professor Delia Ferri (Maynooth University), Principal Investigator of the DANCING project, funded by the European research Council (grant agreement No. 864182), the panel included six speakers.

The first three presentations discussed legal tools that support access to culture, as well as barriers and facilitators to cultural participation for persons with disabilities. In particular, Léa Urzel (DANCING, Maynooth University) discussed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a main legal tool to fostering accessibility for persons with disabilities. Professor Ferri discussed the role of EU law in enhancing access to cultural goods and services, with particular attention on the Web Accessibility Directive and the European Accessibility Act. Dr. Ann Leahy (DANCING, Maynooth University) presented empirical findings of the DANCING research project focusing on factors that prevent or facilitate access to culture.

‘An open museum is a museum that is accessible to everyone, including persons with disabilities. A museum has to be open to everyone, so it needs to consider the diversity of the people, with their abilities and disabilities, so people can enjoy the museum on an equal basis with others.’ – Delia Ferri

Those speeches were followed by a set of presentations on best practices. Ginevra Niccolucci of PRISMA, expert in cultural heritage communication, showcased her work within Museo4U. Katia Franzoso of MuSe and Ornella Dossi of Mart shared their respective experiences and practices of making their exhibitions and venues accessible to all. The panel was bilingual, and simultaneous English – Italian translation was offered. This was complemented by Italian Sign Language interpretation to support accessibility.

Panel 4: Inhabiting culture: digitisation, copyright and creativity in placemaking (Authors: István Harkai and Marta Iljadica)

‘An open museum is a place that has to trust the younger generation.’ – Barbara Pasa

After the second and final keynote speech of the conference delivered by James Bradbourne (Director of Pinacoteca Brera), another exciting panel led by Marta Iljadica (CREATe, Glasgow University) considered placemaking, especially how places are created and experienced with particular reference to cultural heritage, digitisation, and copyright through multiple disciplinary perspectives.

Aleksandra Janus (Centrum Cyfrowe) kicked off the presentations by highlighting the value of digital cultural heritage and its importance to communities, identities, and places. Maria Della Lucia (University of Trento) then presented work exploring how places are made and re-made through culture, creativity, and tourism. Umberto Cecchinato (Università Roma Tre), presenting work undertaken with Massimo Rospocher (Istituto Storico Italo Germanico – Fondazione Bruno Kessler), spoke about the use of mobile application technologies to discover the hidden histories of cities as part of the Hidden Cities project and introduced the Hidden Trento app.

Finally, István Harkai (University of Szeged) and Francisco Duque Lima (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for IT & IP Law) then shifted focus to video games by exploring the challenges of preserving virtual worlds, the challenges of live streaming video games and how this links to placemaking.

‘There are two types of openness. It’s partly a physical question, a museum has to be accessible to everyone in the community. And it’s partly a metaphysical question, that is the question of the ability to interact with the things that are on the display. If cultural heritage is about social process, and museums are about cultural heritage, then by definition a museum must be open, it must be a place that you can not only access, but also can use it to engage with other people.’ – Fiona Macmillan

The workshop was a superb opportunity for members of all three projects – reCreating Europe, inDICEs and DANCING – to reconnect, create new synergies and share inspiration. Furthermore, by setting the workshop in two museums that are striving to become ‘open museums’ in all sense of the phrase, the theoretical content was grounded in reality, and the practicalities of making cultural heritage accessible were ever present. The reCreating Europe project looks forward to continuing the collaborations formed during the organisation of this workshop, as it continues to work towards redefining copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible and creative Europe.

Sixth Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Szeged (WIPS)

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Organisers: reCreating Europe, inDICEs, University of Szeged. Co-funded by the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office.

Venue: The local building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged, Hungary (Somogyi Street 7., Szeged, Hungary)

Registration: Register here

LIVESTREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAQr_SNx9A

The Institute of Comparative Law and Legal Theory (University of Szeged, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences) will host the 6th annual Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Szeged (WIPS) on June 9-10, 2022 in Szeged (Hungary). Launched in 2016, WIPS is organized by the University of Szeged to explore current issues in intellectual property law in an open, discussion-based way for both senior and junior academia.

This year’s WIPS is dedicated to three main tracks. First, copyright-related aspects of the GLAM sector will be discussed by our presenters and during the training part of the event. Second, the overlaps of competition law and intellectual property law will be addressed. Third, the challenges of modern technology to copyright law will be discussed.

Programme

(Please note that the below programme may be subject to change)

June 9th

9:00 – 9:05: Welcome address, Péter Mezei (University of Szeged) 

9:05 – 10:40: GLAM@HOME Panel #1

Panel chair: Péter Mezei (University of Szeged)

  • 9:05 – 9:35: KEYNOTE – Maurizio Borghi (University of Torino): Rethinking the Commons in the Age of Data Capitalism
  • 9:35 – 9:50: Camille Françoise (Creative Commons): Open Culture, Brighter Future? A Copyright Policy Outlook [Author of the paper: Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons)]
  • 9:50 – 10:05: Marta Arisi (University of Trento), Magali Contardi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Giulia Dore (University of Trento), Caterina Sganga (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) & Pelin Turan (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna): Copyright and Access to Cultural Heritage in the EU: Comparative Perspectives on Freedom of Panorama and Reproduction of Public Domain Art
  • 10:05 – 10:20: Cristiana Sappa (IÉSEG School of Management) & Enrico Bonadio (City University): Digitalization Challenges and Opportunities for Copyright Law Stakeholders: GLAMs and Beyond
  • 10:20 – 10:40: Q&A

10:40 – 11:10: Coffee break

11:10 – 12:30: GLAM@HOME Panel #2

Panel chair: Maurizio Borghi (University of Torino)

  • 11:10 – 11:25: Svjetlana Ivanović (University of East Sarajevo): Digitisation of Cultural Heritage – Access to Out-of-Commerce Works
  • 11:25 – 11:40: Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven): The Arcade of the Future: How the Out-of-Commerce Works Regime Can Empower Software Preservation Institutions and the Abandonware Community
  • 11:40 – 11:55: Luis Javier Capote Pérez (University of La Laguna): Cultural Heritage and Videogames: IP Aspects of the Preservation of Software as Intangible Heritage – The Case of Spain [recorded presentation will be available] 
  • 11:55 – 12:10: Bohdan Widła (Jagiellonian University): The forgotten rights? Scientific editions and first editions in the age of the Digital Single Market
  • 12:10 – 12:30: Q&A

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch break

13:30 – 15:30: GLAM@HOME Training

Panel chair: Giulia Dore (University of Trento)

  • 13:30 – 14:30: Péter Mezei (University of Szeged) & Ioanna Lapatoura (University of Nottingham): Cultural preservation and NFTs
  • 14:30 – 15:30: Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven) and Marta Arisi (University of Trento): Using participative tools for problem solving in the cultural heritage sector – a copyright exercise presented by inDICEs and Recreating Europe

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 – 17:20: Junior track

Panel chair: István Harkai (University of Szeged)

  • 16:00 – 16:15: Roya Pary Bouery (University Lyon 3 Jean Moulin): The role of the GLAM sector in the preservation of European cultural heritage: the restitution of artefacts looted during World War II
  • 16:15 – 16:30: Eetu Huhta (University of Eastern Finland): Intermediary Liability at the Intersection of Copyright law and the Digital Services Act
  • 16:30 – 16:45: Wojciech Biernacki (Adam Mickiewicz University): Data, Information, Knowledge – the Relevance of the Distinction for the Exchange of Non-Personal Data
  • 16:45 – 17:00: Jorge Villalobos Portalés (University of Málaga): Artificial Intelligence as a Right Holder in Intellectual Property and Its Omission as Anticompetitive Practice Against Consumers
  • 17:00 – 17:15: Flóra Anna Gubicz (Hungarian Intellectual Property Office): Will the OOC regime be the long-awaited game-changer for mass digitalisation?
  • 17:15 – 17:40: Q&A

June 10th

9:00 – 10:00: Consumer protection and IP overlaps

Panel chair: Ioannis Revolidis (University of Malta)

  • 9:00 – 9:15: Kacper Szkalej (Lund University): Exhaustion of the Making Available Right in Respect of Consumptive Use of Legal Digital Content – A Theory
  • 9:15 – 9:30: Simon Geiregat (Ghent University): What Digital Content Consumers (Should) Want
  • 09:30 – 10:00: Q&A
    Qiang Yu (Shandong University of Science and Technology) & Alexey Ivanov (National Research University Higher School of Economics): Intellectual Property Protection at China’s E-Commerce Platforms: The Notice-Delete Rule and Unfair Competition [recorded presentation will be available] 

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break

10:30 – 11:50: IP & technology

Panel chair: Philipp Homar (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

  • 10:30 – 10:45: Ioannis Revolidis (University of Malta): The Riddle of NFTs: Déjà vu or a New Beginning?
  • 10:45 – 11:00: Radim Charvát (Masaryk University): Legal Aspects of Non-Fungible Tokens in the Area of Intellectual Property
  • 11:00 – 11:15: Antoni Rubí Puig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Tokenizing Attribution and Authenticity – Will NFTs Increase Trust in the Market for Artists’ Multiples?
  • 11:15 – 11:30: Anikó Grad-Gyenge (BME Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences): Impact of the Development of European Law on the Change in the Exclusive Nature of Copyright
  • 11:30 – 11:50: Q&A

11:50 – 12:00: Closing remarks, Péter Mezei (University of Szeged), Giulia Dore (University of Trento) and Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven)

Registration and attendance

Registration is free of charge and open to all. Due to precautionary measures regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of available seats/spots for the event will be limited.

All GLAM@HOME sessions on Day 1 (9th June) of the Workshop will be live-streamed.

The intended audience for this event is anyone working in academia, or practitioners (including lawyers and workers of cultural organisations) interested in the GLAM sector.

reCreating Europe and inDICEs have received funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (grant agreements No. 870626, 870792)

Open Up Museums! Prospects and challenges of Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion

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Organizers: reCreating Europe, DANCING, inDICEs, with the collaboration of museums MuSe and Mart

Venues: MuSe (Trento) and Mart (Rovereto)

Registration: Register here

(Deadline: 18 May 2022, 23:59)

reCreating Europe – in collaboration with projects DANCING, inDICEs, and museums MuSe (Museo delle Scienze, Trento) and Mart (Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto)  – presents a two-day itinerary workshop on 26-27 May 2022 to explore key issues and tools to promote openness in the cultural sector between law and practice.

Accessible event programme

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Programme

Day 1 – 26 May 2022
MuSe – Museo delle Scienze
Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38122 – Trento

09.00-09.40 — Registration

09.40-09.50 — Welcome: Patrizia Famà (MuSe)

09.50-10.00 —  Opening remarks: Roberto Caso (University of Trento)

10.00-11.15 — Panel 1  “Museums, intellectual property, and access to culture”

Chaired by Giulia Dore (University of Trento)

With Kristina Pretrasova (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) – Collaborative making – connecting art education to cultural heritage collections as policy towards open
Marta Arisi (University of Trento) – Open Data and cultural establishments: a regulatory overview
Barbara Pasa (University of Venice Iuav) – Reproduction, reuse and open access
Fiona Macmillan (Birkbeck College, University of London) – Regulating Communities: Strategies for an Open Museum Sector
Konrad Gliściński (Jagiellonian University/Centrum Cyfrowe) – Who should adjust to whom? Public mission of cultural heritage institutions and copyright

11.15-11.45 — Coffee break

11.45-13.00 — Panel 2 “Barriers to access to digital culture for vulnerable groups, inclusivity and the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty”

Chaired by Lorenzo Beltrame (University of Trento)

Delia Ferri and Katie Donnellan (Maynooth University) – Barriers to access digital cultural content: Experiences of Vulnerable Groups
 Giulia Rossello (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) – Access to printed material for people with visual impairments and the Marrakesh Treaty: Evidence from the ReCreating Europe survey
Sofie Taes (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) – ‘Is this me? Unheard, unseen, misrepresented: a community-driven approach to more expressive and inclusive digital heritage collections
Federica Facchetti and Alessia Fassone (Museo Egizio) –  Museo Egizio: In and Out

13.00-14.30 — Lunch break

14.30-16.30 — Training session on legal and practical aspects related to digitisation (in Italian)
Run by Giulia Dore, Tatsiana Yankelevich and Marta Arisis (reCreating Europe), Maria Tartari (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Francesca Manfredini (European Fashion Heritage Association) and Nadia Nadesan (Platoniq)

Aimed at museum personnel/staff. Booking is required upon registration. Maximum 40 participants

16.30-18.00 — Museum guided visit

Booking required upon registration. Maximum 30 participants (2 groups)

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Day 2 – 27 May 2022
Mart – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Corso Bettini 43, 38068 – Rovereto (TN)

09.10-09.30 — Registration

09.30-09.40 — Welcome: Sara Di Giorgio (Ministero della Cultura – Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche)

09.40-10.00 — Keynote: Aldo Grassini, President of Museo Omero

10.00-11.20 — Panel 3 “Fostering accessibility for persons with disabilities in cultural organisations: legal tools, experiences and best practices”

Chaired by Delia Ferri (Maynooth University)

Léa Urzel (Maynooth University) – Realising the Right to Culture of Persons with Disabilities: the CRPD as Main Legal Tool
Ann Leahy (Maynooth University) – Barriers, Facilitators and Best Practices in Access to Culture: Views of Organisations of People with Disabilities in Europe
Delia Ferri (Maynooth University) – The Role of EU Law in Advancing Accessibility of Culture for Persons with Disabilities
Ginevra Niccolucci (PRISMA) – Accessibility: Methodologies and Technological Solutions. The Museo4U Case
Katia Franzoso and Romana Scandolari (MuSe) – Making museums accessible: best practices from MUSE
Carlo Tamanini and Ornella Dossi (Mart) – – Accessibility and Inclusion Experiences in Mart

11.20-11.50 — Coffee break

11.50-12.10 — Keynote: James Bradburne, Director of Pinacoteca Brera

12.10-13.30 — Panel 4 ”Inhabiting culture: digitisation, copyright and creativity in placemaking”

Chaired by Marta Iljadica (Glasgow University, CREATe)

Maria Della Lucia (University of Trento) – Giving places new life blending culture, creativity and tourism
Massimo Rospocher (Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Italian-German Historical Institute) – Giving places new life blending culture, creativity and tourism
Umberto Cecchinato (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) – Hidden Cities and Hidden Trento: Rediscovering the Renaissance City Using mobile app Technologies
Aleksandra Janus (Centrum Cyfrowe) – Value and impact of digital cultural heritage: communities, places, identities
István Harkai (Szeged University) – Preservation of Video Games as Cultural Heritage in the Light of CDSM Directive with Link to Placemaking
Francisco Duque Lima (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for IT&IP Law) – What happens in Vegas, stays online: livestreaming, digital urban exploration and copyright

13.30-15.00 — Lunch break

15.00-16.45 — Sensory experience “Tactile path” (in Italian)

Led by Ornella Dossi (Mart)

Booking required upon registration. Maximum 20 participants

16.45-18.15 — Museum guided visit (in Italian and English)

Booking required upon registration. Maximum 60 participants

Registration and attendance

Registration is open to all interested parties, including professionals, students and the general public.

Attendance is free of charge – registration is required. Maximum capacity of 100 participants for panels, different capacity for training sessions and museum guided visits (see programme above).

Should you have difficulties registering using the Eventbrite registration page please contact Rosie Allison at rosie.allison@libereurope.org. You can indicate during registration if you require any special assistance to attend the event, but you can also contact rosie.allison@libereuorpe.org to inform the organisers of any other accommodations necessary to enable your participation.

Contact persons for the scientific committee

Roberto Caso, Giulia Dore, Marta Arisi

The organising projects have received funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (grant agreements No. 870626, 870792, 864182)

Workshop (9 December) Secondary Publishing Right — Exploring Opportunities and Limitations

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Date: 9 December 2021

Time: 10:00 – 11:30 CET

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdOutqj4qHNdAyJZxelxbu_6j2GMmcwpw

Focusing on the Green Road, this workshop aims to present and discuss the second (or secondary) publication right within the context of scientific publications as a key instrument to implementing Open Access (OA). Five models will be presented from across Europe; Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, France and Belgium.

This workshop is co-organised with members of the reCreating Europe project and LIBER.

Topic

The workshop will elaborate on the second publication right which consists of the right to re-publish and communicate a work to the public. This right could be retained by the author by means of contract negotiations (to which disbalancing conditions may apply), but it is rarely applied in the current publishing context.

The right could also be granted by legislation which appears to be a more practicable and sustainable option. At present, only a handful of countries offer such a possibility, still with many limitations, despite the potential of such a right to rebalance the current distorted ecosystem of scientific communication (where scientific authors have little freedom and control over their thoughts and works).

Target Audience

This workshop is specifically tailored for libraries and archives and will include presentations and lively discussions. No prior knowledge of secondary publishing rights is necessary to participate.

 

* Note that this workshop has been shifted online due to the cancellation of the LIBER Winter Event (9th – 10th December 2021).

Workshop (October 20-21): Supporting Open Culture through Open Data

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Join our upcoming workshop on legal aspects related to digitisation for Galleries and Museums (GM) on October 20-21, hosted by Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin, Italy.

Co-organisers: reCreating Europe, GLAM-E Lab, Egyptian Museum, Serpentine Legal Lab

Other contributors: Creative Commons + Creative Commons – Italian Chapter, Wikimedia Foundation + Wikimedia Italia, Europeana, Fondazione Torino Musei, inDICEs Project, ICOM Italia

Description

The European Strategy for Data, ideally aimed at shaping Europe’s digital future through the creation of a single market for data, has a very ambitious agenda. It promises to increase the volume and the value of data as well as the number of citizens, professionals and businesses dealing with data. It also promises clear and fair rules on access and re-use of data.

However, such a promising programme faces legal challenges that pose real barriers to the achievement of these goals, especially in the context of cultural heritage, where the principle of open by design and open by default appears undermined and less inclined to flourish. Cultural Heritage institutions are in fact still struggling to overcome the legal barriers to access cultural data, and even more so in their capacity to reuse such data.

The implementation of the EU Directive on Open Data and reuse of PSI (2019/1024), despite including important exceptions for CHIs, might facilitate the re-use of data for the purpose of creating new (digital) works (especially when the institution is a co-creator) and generate new knowledge. This, however, depends on its knowledgeable transposition in the national laws of Member States and its appropriate link with the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (2019/790). Pending its national implementation, the pro-open practices and the institutional policies followed by CHIs indeed prove that steps, however small, are being taken towards it.

After attending this workshop, participants will:

  • be able to understand restrictions and hidden opportunities of copyright law and the key roles of open data policies in the creation and re-use of cultural contents;
  • contribute to the mapping of stakeholder practices related to copyright and open data policies;
  • contribute ideas to the drafting of broader institutional policies.

Target audience:

DAY 1 and 2 – Galleries and Museums (members of staff)

DAY 2 – Researchers, educators and students, policymakers, general public

How to participate

The workshop will take place online but will be hosted by Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. Attendance of the DAY I is limited, so please, register HERE early. To participate in DAY 2, please, register HERE.

Non-mandatory reading material will be provided to participants prior to the workshop. Short reading materials will instead be provided for those interested in participating in the breakout sessions.

Please note, that automatic Zoom closed-captioning will be enabled throughout the event to facilitate the attendance of persons with hearing impairment.

During the second day of the workshop sign-language interpretation (LIS) will be provided in the morning and simultaneous (Italian to English) interpretation limited to the roundtable of local Italian experts (approximately 1 hour).

SCHEDULE

DAY 1 (9.45-13.00)

  • Welcome and introduction – Giulia Dore, reCreating Europe
  • Opening Keynote 1 – Fiona Romeo, WMF
  • Opening Keynote 2 – Fabio Viola, Tuo Museo
  • Breakout sessions 1-6 (see descriptions below)
  • Coffee Break
  • Virtual tour of Museo Egizio (approximately 40 minutes)
  • Plenary discussion

DAY 2 (9.45-13.00)

  • Welcome and introduction – Roberto Caso, reCreating Europe
  • Roundtable – Open Data | Open Culture: Highlights from Five Projects
    Chair: Brigitte Vezina, Creative Commons
    Speakers:

    • Caterina Sganga, reCreating Europe
    • Alana Kushnir, Serpentine Legal Lab
    • Andrea Wallace, GLAM-E Lab
    • Francisco Duque Lima, INDICes
    • Ariadna Matas, Europeana
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing roundtable – Challenges in supporting Open Culture: the case of Italy (in Italian with simultaneous interpretation in English):
    Chair: Roberto Caso
    Speakers:

    • Christian Greco, Museo Egizio
    • Deborah de Angelis, ICOM Italia DCHRG and CC IT Chapter
    • Mirco Modolo, CC IT Chapter
    • Iolanda Pensa, WM Italia
    • Elisabetta Rattalino & Dr. Anna Follo, Fondazione Torino Musei
  • Closing Keynote – Emily Hudson
  • Wrap-up and closing

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PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS (DAY 1):

  1. Co-creation in contemporary art and design

This breakout session will explore the topics surrounding re-use of open cultural data to create new artistic works and works of industrial design.

Participants will discuss the applicable legal framework, particularly in terms of copyright law – exploring issues related to copyright subsistence, authorship and joint-authorship, ownership – and its interface with other areas of the law. Participants will also take a look at the opportunities presented by open policies at the international and EU level and see how these may be implemented within the given legal context.

Presenters: Estelle Derclaye, University of Nottingham; Marta Iljadica, reCreating Europe.

  1. Public domain and institutional open policies

This breakout session will focus on the interrelation between cultural institutions and works belonging to the public domain. Developing and testing creative ways of promoting access to culture, CHIs carry out ever newer uses of such contents, from 2D- and 3D-reproductions of artworks to VR experiences. The very nature of the public domain casts away the possibility of restrictions being imposed by copyright law. However,  doubts may arise with regards to innovative uses and re-uses of such works as well as strategies to keep content and data openly available while amortizing the incurred costs. Participants will be invited to reflect and discuss upon the notion of public domain, its underlying goals and meaning within the evolving practices of galleries and museums, sharing their views and experiences on, among others, Article 14 of the new Copyright Directive.

Presenters: Emily Hudson, King’s College; Giulia Priora, reCreating Europe.

  1. Intangible cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and cultural expressions, and digital heritage management

This breakout session will examine the roles of intellectual property and open access relating to the stewardship of traditional cultural expressions and Indigenous cultural property. Digitisation produces a reproduction that can be studied, made available online or even repatriated to the community of origin. Yet it also creates a new digital asset that revives old questions around authenticity, ownership, and control over the underlying traditional knowledge and cultural expressions and intangible cultural heritage. Participants will be introduced to the various topics and processes that should inform the management and digitisation of these materials, including the ethical and equitable dimensions to copyright, Creative Commons licenses and other labels, and open access policies.

Presenters: Brigitte Vezina, Creative Commons; Andrea Wallace, GLAM e-Lab.

  1. Technology, born-digital art and preservation

This breakout session is dedicated to the overlaps of the non-fungible tokens (NFT) craze of 2021, copyright law and cultural preservation. NFTs allow the tokenization of culturally relevant expressions, and share them with others, including collectors, via digital marketplaces. This way they contribute to the circulation of born-digital art and open up new channels of preservation of cultural expressions. The goal of the panel is to present those challenges of the recent developments in this field that might be relevant for the GLAM sector.

Presenters: Péter Mezei, University of Szeged; Ioanna Lapatoura, University of Nottingham.

  1. Educating the voices of the next generation: IP, value and creative agency

This breakout session will explore the relational role IP can play for creatives when working in interdisciplinary and international ways. For those starting a business, freelancing or being employed, understanding and negotiating the importance of IP is often learnt by doing. In creative education, it’s evident that many ideas extend beyond traditional business models where financial gain is a primary driver, with a focus on social, cultural and environmentally-conscious initiatives. IP can represent a creative’s agency for positive change, a way to identify their future selves and consider the ethical dimensions of their work to encourage healthy collaborations.

For those who represent the next generation of changemakers, innovators and thought leaders, this session will encourage participants to consider the centrality of IP beyond legal frameworks to a practice-led approach considering a creative’s vision, their identity and future impact on society.

Presenters: Roxanne Peters, Creative and Cultural IP Rights Specialist at UAL; Alana Kushnir, Serpentine Legal Lab

  1. Data, ethics and privacy

This breakout session is dedicated to exploring the interplay of copyright, data protection and ethics in the activities of cultural heritage organizations. Digitization of collections and creation of activities and contents tailored to the online environment suggest adopting a comprehensive approach to tackle this complex interaction.

Where several issues arise in the compliance with data protection laws, considerations about ethics seem also to take a crucial role in the digital environment, e.g. considering copyright exceptions and limitations or moral rights.

Participants are invited to discuss the current scenario addressing the opportunities and obstacles under the applicable legal framework and exchange ideas on the potential future developments of the subject matter.

Presenters: Naomi Korn, University of Edinburgh; Marta Arisi, reCreating Europe

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This project has recieved funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 870626.

Web conference on CDSM Directive

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“The implementation of the CDSM Directive: snapshots into the future of EU copyright law”

21 June 2021, 2:00 – 6:00 PM (CEST)

 

To register: CLICK HERE

 

In the context of our cross-disciplinary and transnational research activities, we are glad to invite you to our next web conference on the process of implementation of the CDSM Directive.

The conference will feature two keynote speakers, Professor Raquel Xalabarder (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and the First Advocate General Maciej Szpunar (Court of Justice of the EU), two presentations of CDSMD implementation trackers, and four thematic panels. Each panel will be devoted to a topic that is touched by the Directive and has been subject to ReCreating Europe’s research (exceptions and limitations, authors’ remunerations and reversion right, automated content-filtering, preservation of cultural heritage). The presentation of our interim results will be commented upon by respondents representing stakeholders, policymakers, legal experts and the civil society. We look forward to your participation in the discussion!

 

PROGRAM

2:00-2:05 pm – Greetings, introduction of reCreating Europe (Caterina Sganga, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Coordinator, reCreating Europe)

Keynotes

2:05-2:20pm – The aftermath of CDMSD: where do we stand, where shall we go? (Raquel Xalabarder, Professor of Intellectual Property, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

2:20-2:35pm – The future of EU copyright harmonization: which role for the CJEU? (Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union)

2:35-2:45 Q&A

Intermezzo: implementation trackers

2:45-2:55pm – CDSMD implementation tracker (Martin Kretschmer, Professor and Director, CREATe – University of Glasgow)

2:55-3:05pm – The new copyrightexceptions.eu (Paul Keller, President, Communia)

Panel sessions

3:05-3:45pm – Panel 1: Remuneration and reversion rights

  • Chair: Rebecca Giblin (Associate Professor, University of Melbourne; Director, IP Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA))
  • Presenters: Ula Furgal (Research Fellow, CREATe – University of Glasgow), Joost Poort (Associate Professor and Vice-Director, IViR – University of Amsterdam)
  • Respondents: Eanna Casey (Chairman of the Board, Societies’ Council for the Collective Management of Performers’ Rights (SCARP)); Cecile Deniard (Vice-President, European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL))

3:45-4:00pm Virtual coffee break (in breakout rooms)

4:00-4:40pm – Panel 2: A new era for copyright exceptions and limitations?

  • Chair: Christophe Geiger (Professor of Law, CEIPI – University of Strasbourg)
  • Presenters: Caterina Sganga (Associate Professor of Private Comparative Law, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Thomas Margoni (Research Professor, KU Leuven; Fellow, CREATe)
  • Discussants: Agustin Reyna (Director, Legal and Economic Affairs, BEUC), Jeremy Rollinson (Senior Director of European Government Affairs, Microsoft)

4:40-5:20pm – Panel 3: Setting the rules for automated content-filtering

  • Chair: Eleonora Rosati (Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Stockholm)
  • Presenters: João Pedro Quintais (Assistant Professor, IViR – University of Amsterdam), Sebastian Schwemer (Associate Professor, CIIR – University of Copenhagen)
  • Discussants: Cédric Manara (Head of Copyright, Google), Martin Husovec (Assistant Professor, LSE)

5:20-6:00pm – Panel 4: Preservation of cultural heritage

  • Chair: Andrea Wallace (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter)
  • Presenters: Giulia Dore (Research Fellow, University of Trento), Marta Iljadica (Lecturer in Law, CREATe – University of Glasgow)
  • Discussants: Ariadna Matas (Policy Advisor, Europeana); Ben White (Chair of Copyright Working Group, LIBER)

 

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