Friends or Foes? Two Ways of Thinking on the Relation between the Tasks of Cultural Heritage Institutions and the Protection of Copyright

Property, Licenses and Labor when MemoryInstitutions Converge with Informational Capitalism

“…The sovereignty of national cultures is tested by the dependence of memory institutions on informational capitalism for the distribution of digitized materials (Bonde Thylstrup 2018). This prerogative raises instead new questions regarding how to balance the interests of access to cultural heritage and the rights of copyright holders (Belder 2010;Bruncevic 2018;Hemmungs Wirtén 2008). The modern definition of property and accompanying legal architecture is usually recognized to have its origin in John Locke's philosophy positing property as a natural right that precedes government (Anderson and Geismar 2017:4).…”