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The 2021 European Commission Recommendations on a common European data space for cultural heritage strongly encourage an increase in 3D digitisation efforts, and their availability through the data space for cultural heritage. In order to ensure the scalability of more and more 3D data being showcased in the data space for cultural heritage, the Europeana Foundation wanted to seek more legal clarity on the reusability of 3D models, in particular from a copyright perspective.
As part of the investigation process, an open consultation took place during Spring 2024 in the CH and Europeana community, including interviews and feedback collections by aggregators like Photoconsortium, especially reviewing and reflecting on experiences of 3D-related work, such as in our case the work on EUreka3D project.
The result has been a report conducted by Dr. Andrea Wallace (University of Exeter, Glam e-Lab) which answers many questions around copyright, rights statements and 3D digitisation of cultural heritage.
On 11/9/2024 h. 16 CET, a presentation webinar is organized to share about the results of the report, the extent to which copyright protection arises (or not) on 3D cultural heritage digitisation, and the implications of the public domain provision in the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive.
