TOWARDS BETTER SHARING OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AN AGENDA FOR COPYRIGHT

4Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972); Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003); Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) 5Terras M, Coleman S, Drost S, et al. [...] 4Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972); Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003); Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) 13 Risk management is essential to carry out mass digitization projects; see, Stobo, V., Deazley, R. [...] Balance is at the core of copyright, at least in theory: on the one hand, rights are afforded to creators as an incentive and a reward for creativity for the benefit of society in general; on the other hand, members of the public and society as a whole have the right to access knowledge and culture and to enjoy a rich, robust and thriving public domain. [...] The situation is still under debate in the UK,55 has limited binding effect in the US56 and settled at the EU level with the adoption of Article 14 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM).57 Article 14 stipulates that no new rights can arise in reproductions of works of visual art that are in the public domain, unless such reproductions are deemed original (i.e. [...] With copyright erecting so many unnecessary barriers preventing the free flow of knowledge and culture, extending its length flies in the face of policy efforts made to increase access to knowledge in times of crisis and of community efforts to reduce the effects of the pandemic.65 Copyright should strive to promote a robust and universally accessible public domain for the encouragement of further.