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🎯 New Publication Alert 🎯 Excited to share our latest article published in Museum Management and Curatorship: 📘 “Human factor in European museums’ intellectual property management through sociocultural, legal, political and economic determinants” By: Anna Pluszyńska, Maria Drabczyk, Konrad Gliściński, and Anna Kościelna 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gFjc5Kuh 📍 What shapes how museums across Europe manage intellectual property? While legislation and institutional frameworks matter, our research shows one factor stands out: people. Through interviews with 20 museums and umbrella organisations across Europe, we explored how staff mindsets, internal culture, and organisational capabilities influence whether institutions choose openness, caution, or creative risk-taking in IP management. 💡 Key insights: IP policies aren’t just legal—they’re strategic and human-driven. Museums juggle ethical responsibilities with financial and legal pressures. Institutional openness depends heavily on internal knowledge, training, and leadership attitude. There’s a critical need for clearer, more supportive legal frameworks to empower cultural access in the digital age. This study addresses a key gap in our understanding of IP governance in cultural institutions—one rooted not only in law and economics but in motivation, trust, and public mission. 📣 We hope this sparks more conversations about building sustainable, human-centred IP strategies for the museum sector. #OpenCulture #IPR #Museums #CulturalHeritage #DigitalTransformation #Copyright #MuseumManagement #CulturalPolicy #MuseumStudies #Research Brigitte Vézina COMMUNIA Europeana NEMO - Network of European Museum Organisations inDICEs Project Ariadna Matas Casadevall Creative Commons KnowledgeRights21 Giulia Dore Maria Della Lucia Julia Pagel