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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/04/29/the-eu-imperative-to-a-free-public-domain-the-case-of-italian-cultural-heritage/

“The Italian transposition of Article 14 CDSM Directive and the Italian Courts’ rulings reveal an attempt to impose new forms of exclusivity on cultural heritage that may go even further than copyright restrictions, thus becoming what scholars describe as ‘pseudo’ or ‘surrogate’ copyright.

This results in violating the principle of the numerus clausus of intellectual property rights and a significant distortion in the implementation of EU law in the country.”

https://communia-association.org/publication/the-eu-imperative-to-a-free-public-domain-the-case-of-italian-cultural-heritage/

See also https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/198498

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are an important topic

Milewska, Paulina; Nowicka, Zuzanna: The Ball is in the Game: Opportunities for the Protection of Freedom of Expression at the EU Level arising from Real Madrid vs Le Monde Case, VerfBlog, 2024/4/24, https://verfassungsblog.de/the-ball-is-in-the-game/, DOI: 10.59704/036d42efb824dade.

9 Georgian nationals arrested for stealing antique books

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/9-georgian-nationals-arrested-for-stealing-antique-books

“During an action day supported by Europol and Eurojust and executed on 24 April 2024 in Georgia and Latvia, four Georgians suspected of stealing antique and rare books from libraries across Europe were taken into custody. In total, the criminal group is believed to be responsible for the theft of at least 170 books, causing financial damages amounting to around EUR 2 500 000 and an immeasurable patrimonial loss to society. Some of these stolen historical artefacts were sold via auction houses in St. Petersburg and Moscow, effectively making them irrecoverable.”

See here https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/191745

Forgeries, Fakes, and Counterfeits in Print Culture

Forgeries, Fakes, and Counterfeits in Print Culture: Texts, Editions, Copies 10-11 May 2024, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford Convenors:Geri Della Rocca de Candal and Paolo Sachet

PROGRAMME

Friday 10 May, Morning9.30amRegistrationand Coffee10.00am Opening Remarks10.15am -12pm Texts I: False TextsGeorgijs Dunajevs(Würzburg–National Library of Latvia)‘Faux Completeness over Textual Authenticity: A Case Study of the Taiping guangji’Avni Chag(VU Amsterdam)‘Writing in the Name of God: Implications of Pseudepigrapha in the Śikṣāpatrī’Andrea Brondino(Warwick)‘From Fiction to Fake, and Back Again: Reframing the Protocols of Zionin The Prague Cemeteryof Umberto Eco’Enrico Emanuele Prodi(Cagliari)‘The Artemidorus Papyrus between the Ivory Tower and the Public Arena’

Friday 10 May, Afternoon1.30pm -3.15pm Editions I: Fake ImprintsPaolo Sachet(IHR, Geneva)‘“Ad Catacumbas”:Rome and its Historical Sites as Fake Imprints in Protestant Publications’Hadrien Dami(IHR, Geneva)‘From Pierre Aubert to Pierre Marteau: Geneva as Fake Imprint and Hub for Fake Imprints in the Seventeenth Century’Jacqueline Hylkema(Leiden)‘The Politics of Printing Forgery in the Dutch Republic, from the States Bible to Spinoza’Pierre Delseardt(Antwerp)‘Paratext and Persuasion: Fake Imprints as Political Statements in the Habsburg Low Countries (1781–1793)’3.15pmCoffee Break3.45pm -5.30pmCopies I: Forgers and ForgeriesGeri Della Rocca de Candal(Oxford)‘Untangling aCase of Double Forgery: A Unique Copy of the 1499 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’Katharina Mähler(Herzog August Bibliothek)‘On Closer Inspection: Suspicious Details of Historic Bookbindings’Paul Needham(Princeton)‘The Rome Editions of the Columbus Letter 1493: Collecting, Thieving, and Forging’Nick Wilding(Georgia State University)‘Forging Print and Provenance: Deception and Detection in the Case of Galileo’

Saturday 11 May, Morning9.30amCoffee10.15am -12pm Texts II: False AuthorshipPhillip Haberken(Boston University)‘The Challenge of Verisimilitude and the “True Likeness” of Jan Husin the German Reformation’Marco Spreafico(Warburg Institute)‘Un autre est moi: Faking and Forging Self-Translations in Early Modern Italy and France’Giovanni Spalloni(CNR)‘Lettere agli eretici: A Textual Forgery in the Turmoil of 1977’Anthony Grafton(Princeton)‘Joseph Scaliger and the Case of the Doctor’s Diploma’Saturday 11 May, Afternoon1.30pm -3.15pmEditions II: Pirating and WorkaroundsEster Camilla Peric(Scuola Superiore Meridionale)‘Aldine Counterfeits: Reassessing the Lyon and Italian Imitations’John Bidwell(Morgan Library & Museum)‘Authorized Editions: Some Manuscript and Printed Authentication Statements’François DupuigrenetDesroussilles(Independent)‘Counterfeiting Jansenist Bibles during the Reign of Louis XIV: The Brussels-Paris Connection’Pritha Mukherjee (Reading)‘Re-Evaluating Book Piracy and its Market in India’3.15pmCoffee Break

The Original Wikipedia: Siku Quanshu

https://manuscript.org/event/manuscript-mondays-the-original-wikipedia-siku-quanshu-project-36381-volumes-literature-historyphilosophy/

“In 1772, Emperor Qianlong of China, a prolific poet, major art patron, and insatiable collector, ordered the largest encyclopedic compilation of books in Chinese history. Within 10 years, a team of more than 350 scholars and hundreds of editors had compiled 36,381 volumes (2.3 million pages) of the Siku Quanshu. Also known as the Complete Library in Four Sections only seven copies were made. Four of which survive today in Chinese libraries.”

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siku_Quanshu

The right to freedom of information: ensuring access to historical documents

https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33390#trace-3

“The Parliamentary Assembly [of the Council of Europe] highlights the importance of the principle of transparency, including access to historical information held by public authorities, to foster a common historical heritage and a collective memory of the past, to support reconciliation and rehabilitation processes, to facilitate research and academic activities, as well as to improve public confidence in State institutions, good governance and accountability.”

LYKE STIL AND LOVE EVER

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorist-discovers-a-post-medieval-silver-thimble-engraved-with-a-love-poem-180984005/

“Metal detectorist Robert Edwards was searching at Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, when he unearthed a silver thimble inches below the soil. […]

The bottom of the artifact features a “posy” inscription, a type of engraving often found on rings that declare love or devotion. On the newly discovered thimble, capitalized letters spell out “LYKE STIL AND LOVE EVER,” which means “like enduringly, love forever,” per Artnet’s Verity Babbs.”

Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights

https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/03/13/copyright-as-an-access-right-concretizing-positive-obligations-for-rightholders-to-ensure-the-exercise-of-user-rights/