Over the past few months, members of theCreative Commons (CC) Copyright Platformalong with CC friends from around the world have worked together to develop a policy paper addressing the key high-level policy issues affecting access and sharing of cultural heritage, notably by galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs). In this blog post, we provide some background on the paper and share a few highlights.
Policy at Creative Commons
CC strives to influence global policy to ensure better sharing of creative content and tobring down the copyright barriersto universal access and reuse of knowledge and culture, including the cultural heritage held in GLAMs. As part of ourOpen Culture Program, we work to ensure that the interests, concerns, and needs of the public and GLAMs in fulfilling their public-interest mission are balanced with those of rights holders in a fair manner.
本文旨在为CC在文化遗产背景下的版权改革倡导工作提供一个全球性的、简明的参考点。我们希望它能支持CC社区成员自己的倡导努力，指导决策者的立法进程，并为任何对文化和文化遗产的获取和再利用政策问题感兴趣的人提供信息。
Paper highlights
The paper offers an extensive overview of copyright challenges to the legitimate activities of GLAMs, notably preservation (largely through digitization) and sharing of digital and digitized content images and data for access, use and reuse. It also notes copyright’s chilling effects in the face of the GLAM sector’s general risk aversion. The paper then provides insights towards effective copyright reform addressing those challenges, with a focus on the opportunities related to the digital environment. The proposals for reform are geared towards legal certainty, international harmonization, and as a means to facilitate cross-border transactions.
The paper recognizes the pivotal roles of GLAMs in preserving and providing access to knowledge and culture to all members of society. It calls for policies that support better sharing of cultural heritage in the public interest.
Read the full paper hereand stay tuned for an exciting event building on this paper coming soon!
