ICOM (International Council of Museums) is regularly publishing strategy papers regarding the future roles and positions of museums worldwide. Their latest issue deals with the question of intellectual & cultural property. Like many other institutions, not only those which are closely connected to the internet, they are struggling to find recommendations of how to face the changing intellectual property perspectives. ICOM sees this task framed into three major developments:
1. a transformation in the global knowledge economy: museums are digitising their intangible cultural heritage, thus creating access to new and remote audiences,
2. the increasing autonomy of indigenous communities in preserving, safeguarding and disseminating their cultural expressions,
3. calls of these communities to create standard-setting instruments to ensure the protection of intellectual property rights – especially in the field of the intangible cultural heritage.
Following up on this, please have a look at the very inspiring debate between Michael F. Brown, Professor of Anthroposophy, and Richard Kurin, director of the Smithsonian Institute of Folkife and Cultural Heritage, concerning exactly this topic:
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