Cultural Heritage and IP: New Policies and Agendas

The network has the great pleasure to host a series of blog and invite a panel of speakers to exchange on a topic dear to my IP-enthusiastic heart : cultural heritage. Cultural Heritage is a relatively recent discipline which has just begun to flirt with IP laws, and rightly so! Great cultural and economic gains gravitate around the intersections between cultural products, events, heritages, creative and digital industries. In other words, the question cultural heritage and IP was a must have for our conference and welcomes experts from different disciplines on the panel and in the au

dience for the occasion.

No it is not just about crumbling castles...

Megan Rae Blakely writes about the tangification of our cultural heritage (read more here!) and her fellow scottish researcher Andrea Wallace questions the current practice of culture institution with regard to the digitisation of the public domain creating surrogate IP rights (read her blog entry here!).

The panel will also exchange on the question of floklore a neighbour-topic of cultural heritage IP law is a little more familiar with. Mohammed Shahnewaz (blog entry to be uploaded soon!) first asks 'who owns floklore?'. Stephen Collins shares his expertise on the relationship between copyrigth and ghanian theatre (Ananse) (read his blog entry here).