Digitisation of the European cultural heritage is the challenge of the 21st century. Libraries, Archives, Museums, and other memory institutions have now the technological means to digitize their whole collections and make them available online. The potential for accessibility to cultural artefacts, with consequential benefits for research and study, is immense. However, in practice this type of undertaking is severely restricted due to the real or potential subsistence of copyright and related rights.
CIPPM is at the forefront of the research to develop solutions for the digitization of our cultural heritage. In 2013, the Centre Director, Professor Maurizio Borghi co-authored a monograph with Dr. Stavroula Karapapa titled ‘Copyright and Mass Digitization’ published by Oxford University Press. This book queries the normative and policy implications of this newly emerging framework of mass digitization in copyright law.
In July 2015 the EnDOW Project took off. This is a 3-year project co-funded by Heritage Plus and the European Commission, which sees the cooperation of several major European research centres (CREATe, University of Glasgow; IViR, University of Amsterdam; ASK, Bocconi University, Milan) under the leadership of CIPPM. The project developed the Diligent Search Tool, a pioneeristic platform for crowdsourcing diligent search with the goal of clearing the rights for the collections of cultural heritage institutions:
Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations” - Mendis D. White B and Hong D., Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations (Knowledge Rights 21, 2024) (114pp) Adopting a desk-based literature review, as well as discussion with national experts from the relevant jurisdictions, this report explores the adoption, use and impact of open norms, as introduced in seven... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations”
EnDOW - Enhancing access to 20th Century cultural heritage through Distributed Orphan Works clearance (EnDOW) EnDOW is a 3-years collaborative project funded under Heritage Plus, a programme launched by agencies of 18 European countries and the European Commission as part of the Joint Programming Initiative in Cultural Heritage and Global Change. The project is a partnership of... Read more » about EnDOW
Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations” - Mendis D. White B and Hong D., Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations (Knowledge Rights 21, 2024) (114pp) Adopting a desk-based literature review, as well as discussion with national experts from the relevant jurisdictions, this report explores the adoption, use and impact of open norms, as introduced in seven... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations”
C. Op Den Kamp, B. Flueckiger D. and Pfluger – A Material-Based Approach to the Digitization of Early Applied Colours (2018) - Op Den Kamp, C., Flueckiger, B. and Pfluger, D., 2018. A Material-Based Approach to the Digitization of Early Applied Colors. In: Fossati, G., Jackson, V. and Lameris, B., eds. The Colour Fantastic. Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 237-259. While the digitization of archival films has been practiced for more than a decade, there... Read more » about C. Op Den Kamp, B. Flueckiger D. and Pfluger – A Material-Based Approach to the Digitization of Early Applied Colours (2018)