Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law

Dr Pinar Oruc will introduce her book “Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law”

In this event, Dr Pinar Oruc will introduce her book “Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law”. It is the second book in the Art Law Library, a book series by Hart Publishing and the Institute of Art and Law. It is available Open Access.

The talk will follow the same order as the book. First, the debates on the scope and ownership of cultural heritage will be introduced and an overview of the copyright implications of the digitisation process (including 2D and 3D scanning; virtual and augmented reality; text and data mining; and artificial intelligence) will be provided. This will be followed by the three main sections, referred as the ‘clashes’ in the book. The first clash in theory, lies between cultural property law and copyright justification theories. The second clash is in the different legal approaches to digitising in-copyright, public domain, orphan, out-of-commerce and unpublished works in the chosen jurisdictions, focusing on the relevant rights and defences. The third clash is in the interests of stakeholders, based on public reactions to existing projects and cases, supported by interviews with heritage professionals engaging in digitisation.

Dr Pinar Oruc is a Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Manchester. She is a QMUL CCLS PhD alumna, and has previously taught on the Art, Business and Law LLM programme.

The book is available on Hart Publishing (Bloomsbury) website: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digitising-cultural-heritage-9781509959280/