Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Unobvious Heritage: Issues of the Conservation of Dąbrowa Tarnowska’s Urban Layout
- Managing Cultural Heritage through Projects
- Cultural Heritage of Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Problems of Protection and Preservation
- Art Crime: Case Studies
- The Principle of Access to Cultural Heritage in Relation to Intellectual Property Law: The Challenges in the post-COVID World
- The Role of Tax Exemption with the Tax on the Means of Transport in the Context of Cultural Heritage Protection as an Example
- The Crystallization of the Derivation of Subjective Rights in Environmental Protection in Culturally Important Areas: On the Example of a Commentary to the Judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court of March 15, 2018, II FSK 3579/17
- Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage as a Legal Challenge
- Most Important Documents Regulating the Issue of the Restitution of Cultural Goods during World War II and Their Impact on the Development of Restitution
- The 3rd European Games: Stakeholders, Profitability, Opportunities and Barriers
- Legal Determinants of the Concept of Social Responsibility in the Protection of Cultural Heritage
- Trade Mark Protection as a Creative Method of Indirect Monument Preservation Following the Ruling of The European Court of Justice
- Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage as a Legal Challenge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Unobvious Heritage: Issues of the Conservation of Dąbrowa Tarnowska’s Urban Layout
- Managing Cultural Heritage through Projects
- Cultural Heritage of Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Problems of Protection and Preservation
- Art Crime: Case Studies
- The Principle of Access to Cultural Heritage in Relation to Intellectual Property Law: The Challenges in the post-COVID World
- The Role of Tax Exemption with the Tax on the Means of Transport in the Context of Cultural Heritage Protection as an Example
- The Crystallization of the Derivation of Subjective Rights in Environmental Protection in Culturally Important Areas: On the Example of a Commentary to the Judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court of March 15, 2018, II FSK 3579/17
- Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage as a Legal Challenge
- Most Important Documents Regulating the Issue of the Restitution of Cultural Goods during World War II and Their Impact on the Development of Restitution
- The 3rd European Games: Stakeholders, Profitability, Opportunities and Barriers
- Legal Determinants of the Concept of Social Responsibility in the Protection of Cultural Heritage
- Trade Mark Protection as a Creative Method of Indirect Monument Preservation Following the Ruling of The European Court of Justice
- Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
Introduction
It cannot be denied that the development of the Internet has radically changed the way we live. Interpersonal relations, shopping, books, and recently, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, also offices, university classes and cultural institutions (e.g. museums, art galleries) have been transported to the virtual level. Moreover, a large part of the information produced in the world is born digital and comes in a wide variety of formats: text, database, audio, film, image.
Currently, we are dealing with a situation where intensive technological development not only creates the possibility of protecting and preserving cultural heritage for the future, using a process of digitization of its objects, but also creates such heritage itself (digital heritage). The Internet has become a place of creation of content in a dematerialized form, such as photography, computer games, net art and various forms of expression, e.g. blogs and vlogs. These works undoubtedly belong to the contemporary cultural heritage. Nevertheless, they do not always enjoy the legal protection, which is provided for that cultural heritage, due to the wording of legal provisions. Often even digital heritage is a kind of novelty for a given country and thus a challenge to its legal system of cultural heritage protection. The most recent legacy, paradoxically to its young age, is therefore the most troublesome.
In the case of digital heritage, one should think outside the box, because newly emerging technical solutions require modern legal solutions aimed at the protection of abstract matter, without a material carrier. The aim of this article is to present the concept of digital heritage and it is still widening scope, as a legal challenge, by analyzing the currently existing legal forms of its protection.
Digital Cultural Heritage
In its broadest sense, heritage is our legacy, containing everything that is inherited from the past, created in the present and passed for future generations. Individual UNESCO conventions adequately restrict this concept and divide it into, i.a., “cultural heritage, natural heritage, underwater cultural and natural heritage or intangible cultural heritage.”
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- New Trends in the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage , pp. 139 - 156Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2023