Domain characteristics Sample Clauses

Domain characteristics. The rapid technological changes and the push to provide broad access to cultural and historical holdings are changing the landscape of archives, libraries, museums and other cultural heritage institutions. The incentives for developing and implementing policies with appropriate levels of control and information management practices at Social History institutions must be examined in the light of this scientific area attributes. Access, both short-term and long-term, poses challenges to the intellectual property regime in which Social History institutes are familiarized to work. Access to cultural heritage collections has been hampered by the complexity of copyright licensing, a lack of legal certainty about educational and other non- commercial use, complex procedures regarding orphan works, and the prevalence of deep-rooted cultural and linguistic barriers. It is a rather common problem that many Social History institutions do not own the rights to the material in their possession, but merely hold such records as a function of their role as depositories/holders. Donor agreements, contractual provisions, statutory frameworks, and ethical concerns can overshadow research interests even in case of public domain materials. Social History collections, by nature, are often constituted by heterogeneous materials – clustered together either because of provenance or theme – comprising records of various origins, among them “orphan works” for which the copyright holder cannot be traced. Under such circumstances, most of the cultural heritage institutions are more likely to assume that a work is protected simply to avoid possible claims from rights holders, and the negative consequences that such claims could bring.8 On the other hand, Social History institutions traditionally have seen themselves as guardians of their collections, not owners, and their mandate is not to exert monopoly-like control over their holdings, but to serve public needs. Although, as we already mentioned, access - both short-term and long-term poses challenges to the way these organizations are accustomed to work, rights issues could bring these matters to the surface by threatening to dismantle the formal and operational methods used so far by Social History institutions to regulate access and use of their collections. which do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author (or other right-holder).” xxxx://xxxxxx.xxxx.xxx/sol3/xxxxxx.xxx?abstract_id=1476968