Empowering IPR for the Commons assembly

CHIs & IPR

The assembly

An assembly is a group of members of an organization who meet periodically to make decisions about a specific area or scope of the organization.

Assemblies hold meetings, some are private and some are open. If they are open, it is possible to participate in them (for example: attending if the capacity allows it, adding points to the agenda, or commenting on the proposals and decisions taken by this organ).

Examples: A general assembly (which meets once a year to define the organisation's main lines of action as well as its executive bodies by vote), an equality advisory council (which meets every two months to make proposals on how to improve gender relations in the organisation), an evaluation commission (which meets every month to monitor a process) or a guarantee body (which collects incidents, abuses or proposals to improve decision-making procedures) are all examples of assemblies.

In this assembly, we will discuss the place of Intellectual Property Rights in the value chain of Cultural Heritage Institutions.

How does IPR relate to a Balanced Value Impact model? How do individual author and copyrights relate to community and cultural rights? Can copyrights strengthen the ties between creators and heritage preservation, or is it a hindrance?

Join this assembly to discuss these points with legal experts, open access activists, heritage fund managers and co-creation developers.

In this consultation process and workshop, we want to gather information on how institutions experience the IPR status of their collections, and what opportunities or threats they see in their efforts to engage online with their audiences. For this, we open a process on the platform: we want to hear from you!

But we also have something on offer: in the workshop insights from the project on the current status of IP law in Europe and its possibilities will be presented together with theoretical backgrounds from our assemblies, as well as results from a study into value chains for CHI’s.

This consultation workshop forms part of a series of 3 consultations to prepare the definition of the self-assessment bench-marking tool which will be developed in the Indices project to allow CHI institutions to “measure” where they find themselves on the route to Digital Transformation and co-creative user-engagement.