Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage as a Legal Challenge
Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage as a Legal Challenge

Author(s): Aleksandra Guss
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Library and Information Science, Preservation, Sociology of Law, Administrative Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: cultural heritage; digital cultural heritage; copyright; monuments; digital works; museums; virtual museums; born digital
Summary/Abstract: It cannot be denied that the development of the Internet has radically changed the way we live. A large part of information produced in the world is born digital. Culture is also transferred to the virtual ground. 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 most recent cultural legacy, paradoxically to its young age, causes the most trouble. The Polish law does not keep up with technological development and does not provide for protective measures for the digital cultural heritage. The only form of protection for digital objects is copyright, which, however, focuses more on the protection of rights to them by the author than on their preservation. The article aims to present the issue of digital heritage and it is still widening scope, as a legal challenge, by analyzing the currently existing legal forms of its protection.

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