¿dominio público o copyfraude de copias digitales? Prácticas en bibliotecas patrimoniales españolas

Abstract

In the context of the problems caused by Digital Environment regarding patrimonial rights of the authors and Free Culture initiatives that try to curb the commercialization of knowledge, this work analyzes the practices developed by a set of Spanish digital libraries belonging to the Administrations, in order to publish their heritage collections in the Public Domain. The analysis is based on the administrative metadata, legal notices, and other formulas introduced in the bibliographic records, and in the webpages of these libraries. It is concluded that the limited attention given by Spanish legislation to public domain works is a cause of the great variety and confusion in the treatment of digital copies; besides, there is an influence of the publication platform on the attribution or nonattribution of economic rights over them.