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Johan Axhamn

Senior lecturer

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Cross-Border Extended Collective Licensing : A Solution to Online Dissemination of Europe’s Cultural Heritage

Author

  • Johan Axhamn
  • Lucie Guibault

Summary, in English

The ever increasing use of the Internet and of digitisation technologies have opened up new possibilities for distributing and accessing creative content online, including for cultural heritage institutions. However, the digitisation and dissemination of a substantial proportion of the collections held by European cultural institutions may be considerably hindered due to high transaction costs related to clearance of copyright and related rights. This holds equally true for the cultural institutions taking part in the Europeana project. This study examines whether the Nordic “extended collective licensing” (ECL) model could provide a viable solution to the problems of digitisation and dissemination of copyright protected works held by cultural heritage institutions, with a brief incursion into the issue of the cross-border dissemination of works.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Publication/Series

Amsterdam Law School Research Paper

Issue

22

Document type

Report

Publisher

University of Amsterdam

Topic

  • Law (excluding Law and Society)

Keywords

  • copyright
  • extended collective licensing

Status

Published

Report number

2012