This paper by MCN 2006 speaker Guy Pessach (Asst. Prof. of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is on-line and open for discussion. Guy would be interested in comments from the museum constituency. I’ve given it considerable attention, as I think it contains some remarkable ideas. The whole concept of Digital Cultural Preservation (not what we usually call Digital Preservation, rather the preservation of Cultural Property in digital form) intrigues me. It suggests a way of mandating the digitization of cultural heritage through Cultural Property Law, a side road that could relieve the unrelenting focus of copyright law in this field.

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