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Faustian Perspective On Digitization: Making A Deal With The Devil, Lucie Guibault
Faustian Perspective On Digitization: Making A Deal With The Devil, Lucie Guibault
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Faustian Perspective On Digitization: Making A Deal With The Devil, Lucie Guibault
Faustian Perspective On Digitization: Making A Deal With The Devil, Lucie Guibault
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Digitization of library material, archives and museum collections, arts organizations repositories is progressing rapidly, and opens up new possibilities of accessing, using and re-using the knowledge embodied in cultural heritage. By giving new purpose and function to works, it enhances the value of the public domain and enriches the public sphere. However, digitization also creates the conditions for the rise of new proprietary entitlements over cultural objects. Such ‘informational monopolies’ are often justified as necessary to recoup the high costs of digitization, or as the basis to provide additional sources of income for the cultural institutions. At the same time, …