Bloomsday: Copyright Estates and Cultural Festivals

Copyright Protection and Cultural Heritage

This paper explores the tensions between universal access to cultural heritage online and the varying copyright and other issues that may impinge on this apparent utopia. In particular, we argue for multiple routes to accessing information to avoid monopolistic or commercial dominance of the field. As largely altruistic institutions, cultural organizations should ensure the issues are discussed...

Copyright Protection & Exploitation of Digital Cultural Heritage

The main issue addressed in this paper is the design and implementation of a framework for the copyright protection and exploitation of Digital Cultural Heritage. The framework is consisting of an Advanced Digital Image Repository, which offers specialized services and a Dedicated User Interface for the protection and management of the Intellectual Property Rights of digitized material. In addi...

Religious Festivals and Influenza

Objectives Influenza outbreaks have been widely studied. However, the patterns between influenza and religious festivals remained unexplored. This study examined the patterns of influenza and Hanukkah in Israel, and that of influenza and Hajj in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Oman and Qatar. Method Influenza surveillance data of these seven countries from 2009 to 2017 were downloaded from the Fl...

O Culture's Open Sources: Software, Copyright, and Cultural Critique

gramming and distribution which, when combined with novel uses of intellectual property law, has come to be known as “free software” or “open source software.” It is distinguished from other forms and practices of software production for many reasons, but most interestingly because its practitioners discuss it not simply in technical terms, but as a philosophy, a politics, a critique, a social ...

Copyright and Cross-Cultural Borrowing: Indo-Western Musical Encounters