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The editors of the Italian open access journal Engramma invited me to contribute an article for a special issue on copyleft and internet piracy.
So I wrote 'Museums and the Enclosure of the Public Domain in the Digital Age', now online at https://engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=5839
Grazie a Giulia Zanon, Filippo Perfetti e Monica Centanni. 🙏
Can the same digitised public domain work by the same artist be considered both in and out of copyright by different museums in the same legal jurisdiction? 🤔
Enter the world of Schrödinger’s copyright 👇
https://douglasmccarthy.com/2024/06/schrodingers-copyright
I’ve updated my article 'Balancing access and income – the dilemma of museum image licensing' with new data from the National Gallery in London. 
https://douglasmccarthy.com/2024/07/balancing-access-and-income/
Andrea and me were really happy seeing our ‘Hawking Hogarth’ digital installation at the University of Technology Sydney’s amazing 360° Data Arena.
This specially commissioned work accompanied our presentation and ongoing research into all things Hogarth, copyright, digital collections and the public domain.
Big thanks to the UTS tech team here in Sydney, and to Zoë Sadokierski for the great photos.
#copyright #culturalheritage #museums #libraries #openaccess #licensing #OpenGLAM
G'day from Australia 🌏 🐨 🦘
I teamed up with Andrea Wallace today to present new research on copyright, digitisation and the public domain at the University of Technology Sydney.
Our slides ➡️ https://bit.ly/HawkingHogarthUTS
The event ⤵️
https://artechlaw.org/hacking-visual-culture
#copyright #culturalheritage #museums #libraries #openaccess #licensing #OpenGLAM
This Friday, I'll be joining a Copyright Literacy webinar to talk about art, copyright and the public domain. 🌻
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
https://copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/webinar-81-highights-of-icepops-2025/
The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI:
Jane Secker from Copyright Literacy has written a thoughtful review of my latest article about copyright and museums:
