SCuLE Submission for the EU Consultation on Digital Cultural Heritage

This is the final version. Available on open access via the DOI in this recordSubmitted on 14 September 2020, this response to the EU Commission's Consultation on Digital Cultural Heritage and Recommendation 2011/711/EU highlights the importance of providing clear statements on open access obligations around digital cultural heritage in the public domain, along with providing the necessary infrastructure to ensure its wider implementation and a more secure climate for the generation of new knowledge, goods and services via the important primary materials held in Europe's cultural institutions

Réponse au Rapport Sarr-Savoy : Déclaration sur la numérisation, les droits de propriété intellectuelle et le libre accès du patrimoine culturel africain et des archives connexes

This is the final versionThe English language version of this report is available in ORE at http://hdl.handle.net/10871/36770Soutenues par 108 universitaires et praticiens spécialistes du droit de la propriété intellectuelle et du patrimoine culturel au sein d’universités, d’institutions et d’organisations du patrimoine à travers le monde, Mathilde Pavis et Andrea Wallace répondent au Rapport Sarr-Savoy soumis au gouvernement français en 2018. Cette réponse souligne la nécessité pour le gouvernement français d’entreprendre davantage de recherches sur les questions de numérisation, de droit de propriété intellectuelle et de libre accès dans le cadre de la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain. Le rapport Sarr-Savoy décrit les problèmes juridiques et éthiques liés à la restitution en détail, mais ne traite de la numérisation, les droits de propriété intellectuelle et le libre accès que très brièvement. En l'état, le Rapport Sarr-Savoy est problématique dans la mesure où il recommande la numérisation systématique du patrimoine africain destiné à être restitué, et la mise à disposition en libre accès des fruits de cette numérisation. Ces recommandations doivent faire l’objet d’une analyse critique approfondie. Il est impératif que le gouvernement français adopte une stratégie de numérisation et de gestion des droits de la propriété intellectuelle plus nuancée que celle proposée par le Rapport Sarr-Savoy, et ce avant de procéder à la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain

Recommendations on Digital Restitution and Intellectual Property Restitution

Submission to the Advisory Committee for Guidelines for Collections in Austrian Federal Museums from Colonial Contexts convened by the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS)Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC

Intellectual Property Rights and Access in Crisis

This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this recordThe importance of access to intellectual property rights (IPR) protected subject-matter in two crucial areas – public health, and educational and cultural engagement – has been extensively demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although they implicate separate legal areas, patent and copyright, the common thread linking the two is intellectual property’s difficult relationship with access in the public interest. This paper examines the tensions caused by access barriers, the tools used to reduce them and their effectiveness. It is clear that the access barriers magnified by COVID-19 are not restricted to narrow or specific contexts but are widespread. They are created by, and a feature of, our existing IPR frameworks. Open movements provide limited remedies because they are not designed to, nor can, adequately address the wide range of access barriers necessary to promote the public interest. Existing legislative mechanisms designed to remove access barriers similarly fail to effectively remedy access needs. These existing options are premised on the assumption that there is a singular ‘public’ motivated by homogenous ‘interests’ which fails to reflect the plurality and cross-border reality of the public(s) interest(s) underpinning the welfare goals of IPR. We conclude that a systemic re-evaluation is required and call for positive and equitable legal measures protective of the public(s) interest(s) to be built within IPR frameworks that also address non-IPR barriers. The current pandemic and development of a ‘new normal’ provides a crucial opportunity to comprehensively consider the public(s) interest(s), not just during a global health crisis, but on an ongoing basis.Research Englan

The coup de théâtre and the enchanting object of performance

Examining three examples from theatre productions in London and Edinburgh between 1997-2001, this article explores the coup de théâtre as a theatrical phenomenon. It argues for the importance of enchantment in conceptualising the coup de théâtre and that the suspension of the rational in relation to such theatrical moments is central to their impact. This sense of enchantment revolves around the changing status of the object in the coup de théâtre, which, it will be suggested, is linked to the shift between animacy and inanimacy. By destabilising rational modes of understanding, the coup de théâtre enters into the temporality of death and mourning, as objects occupy dual ontologies, both living and inanimate, literal and metaphorical. The coup de théâtre, it will be argued, is a point in performance in which perception and memory, the visible and the conceptual, converge, and in which the permanence of death is troubled by the reanimating effect of theatre

Lifestyle behaviours of young adult survivors of childhood cancer

This cross-sectional study collected baseline data on the health behaviours of a large population of survivors of childhood cancer in the UK, aged 18–30 years, compared with those of sex- and age-matched controls. Data from 178 young adult survivors of childhood cancer, diagnosed and treated at Bristol Children's Hospital, 184 peers from the survivors' GP practices and 67 siblings were collected by postal questionnaire. Conditional logistic regression analysis showed that, for matched sets of survivors and controls, survivors of a variety of childhood cancers reported lower levels of alcohol consumption (P=0.005), lower levels of cigarette smoking (P=0.027) and lower levels of recreational drug use (P=0.001) than controls. Analysis of matched sets of survivors and siblings showed similar trends but no significant differences. A health behaviour index for each participant was constructed from the data collected on five key health behaviours which influence future health status. Comparison of the means for each case group showed that survivors of childhood cancer were leading healthier lives than controls or siblings. This finding was expressed most clearly as the difference in the means of the health behaviour index for each case group, derived from five health behaviours (one-way ANOVA, P<0.001)