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Presenting the Intangible: Curating the Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Museum Practice—Legal Aspects

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Advanced technological processes have facilitated the commercial exploitation of the manifestations, knowledge and skills that make up intangible cultural heritage (ICH) on an unprecedented scale. The complexity of ICH makes it difficult to create effective tools for legal protection. Although the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage provides broad definitions, it lacks specific rules on ownership of ICH and its exploitation and curation in heritage institutions. The article aims to retrace the place of ICH in the museum practice in relation to the recent developments in intellectual property law and the new role of local communities in the processes of ICH safeguarding.

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    Teodora Konach

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  1. Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Sarah Whatley

  2. Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Rosamaria K. Cisneros

  3. Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London, London, United Kingdom

    Amalia Sabiescu

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Konach, T. (2018). Presenting the Intangible: Curating the Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Museum Practice—Legal Aspects. In: Whatley, S., Cisneros, R., Sabiescu, A. (eds) Digital Echoes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73817-8_14

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