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BGH hears “legal dispute concerning framing” between Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst and Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
On Thursday, the 21st February 2019, the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe (Federal Court of Justice) (BGH) will hear the legal dispute between the Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst (VG...
The Digital Horizon 03: "The Virtual Migration Museum – A Journey through Time and Space"
In future we will be presenting exciting topics and projects from data partners and cooperation partners of the German Digital Library in a series of guest articles: whether it is a new...
Performance, Speed, New Usage Scenarios – Modernisation of Total Architecture Secures Sustainability of the DDB
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) has put into operation a completely renewed system architecture on the basis of sustainable technologies and thus has...
Kammergericht Berlin (Court of Appeal) Decides Copyright Dispute in Favour of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
In a currently pending test case dealing with issues of technological measures to prevent framing, the Court of Appeal passed a ground-breaking judgement in the second instance on 18th...
The German Federal Cultural Foundation supports cultural hackathon!
There is great joy about the official decision announced on 21 June 2018: within the scope of the programme Kultur digital (working title) of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (KSB), the...
Our First DDBforum: A Review
„Cultural heritage is no end in itself, it is the future of all of us“ – this closing statement by Dr. Uwe Koch, national coordinator of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018...
Our DDBforum: Information, Workshop Reports, Discussions, Exchanges
The DDBforum will be held for the first time in Berlin on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th June. The event is integrated within the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 –...
The Digital Horizon 02: „Gerda Koepff, pioneering collector of Art Nouveau glass“
In a series of guest contributions, we will present exciting topics and projects of data and cooperation partners of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek in the future: be it a new way of...
The Digital Horizon 01: „Eventful Years – A Web Journal for the Exploration of Art Nouveau“
In a series of guest contributions, we will present exciting topics and projects of data and cooperation partners of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek in the future: be it a new way of...
Managerial change at the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg
On the occasion of the farewell of Prof. Dr. Robert Kretzschmar as President of the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (National Archive Baden-Württemberg) and the concurrent appointment of...
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: The beta version went online five years ago
On 28th November 2012 the first public beta version of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) (German Digital Library) went online: on this occasion we would like to review what there...
Willing to share?
The question of the willingness to share digitally and to make digital participation possible assumes that the cultural heritage institutions (museums, collections and archives) have an...
#12of12: The Archives Department of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and the Archivportal-D – A Portrait in Twelve Pictures
On a very rainy Monday afternoon in Berlin, I take the train to Stuttgart to visit my colleagues from the Archives Department and the Archivportal-D, the sector-specific access to the...
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek publishes Strategy 2020
Supported by cultural and scientific institutions from all cultural sectors and started as a federal/state project, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek has achieved key objectives of its...
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek vs. VG Bild-Kunst Model Case Proceedings on "Framing"
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) filed an action with the Regional Court of Berlin against the art royalties collective society Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst (VG Bild-Kunst)...
Looking beyond Google for online access to EU culture and knowledge
Internet users in the US have access to a much broader body of knowledge and culture than internet users in the EU. According to Ellen Euler we should not see Google Books as a threat...
New member in the competence network: FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
The Board of Trustees of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek approved the entry of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure as a full member of the competence...
From card index to archive server. Options of digital use of libraries, museums and archives under applicable copyright law – An article by Till Kreutzer
The first publication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek “A Future for the Past – Cultural Heritage in the Digital World” (“Der Vergangenheit eine Zukunft – Kulturelles Erbe in der...
Online borrowing and virtual museum tour. The right to cultural participation in the 21st century - an article by Ellen Euler and Thomas Dreier
The first publication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek “A Future for the Past – Cultural Heritage in the Digital World” (“Der Vergangenheit eine Zukunft – Kulturelles Erbe in der...
Copyright, practice and fiction. Rights clearance for cultural heritage in the age of digitalization – An article by Paul Klimpel
The first publication of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek “A Future for the Past – Cultural Heritage in the Digital World” (“Der Vergangenheit eine Zukunft – Kulturelles Erbe in der...