Book | FAQs author’s rights, copyright and open licenses for culture on the web

OPEN ACCESS. 100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR MUSEUMS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES.AUTHOR’S RIGHTS, COPYRIGHT AND OPEN LICENSES FOR CULTURE ON THE WEB. 2022. By Digital Cultural Heritage Research Group – ICOM ITALY Sarah Dominique Orlandi, Deborah De Angelis, Pierfrancesco C. Fasano, Cristina Manasse, Anna Maria Marras, Mirco Modolo.

FAQ with practical indications for museums, archives and libraries, with the aim of clarifying the opportunities and legal limits related to the reuse and dissemination of digital reproduction of cultural resources on the web, in order to be able to take decisions on topics of a complex world with a better awareness.

OPEN ACCESS DEFINITION

By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Budapest Declaration, 2002

Our research group works in close contact and dialogue with experts from national and international associations and stakeholders so that with a general reflection on digital cultural contents we may hope for a greater flexibility and balance between exclusive rights and freedom of reproduction.

We thank colleagues who have helped us with important observations and suggestions during the selection and revision of these FAQs, for their valuable contribution.