IPR management models for cultural heritage on ECLAP Best Practice Network

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) modelling allows to specify how a digital content can be used. Moreover, with the growing interest for the open source licensing of software artefacts the same `open´ policies have been applied also to digital content and thus open does not implies that one can do everything he like on the accessed content. The IPR management to allow the enforcement in play/access of specific conditions expressed in a license and their application during the content workflow, are complex and partially solved problems. In this paper, we describe the system adopted in the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance, ECLAP, to publish and distribute digital content taking into account the problems connected to the IPR of cultural heritage cross media content on Performing Arts domain. The paper reports IPR models and solutions adopted for IPR enforcement and the statistical analysis of about the effective usage of the solution proposed.