We find that museums operate within a paradox of mission and risk which urgently calls for better institutional policies, sector-wide collaboration, and more adaptive legal frameworks to enable museums to pursue their mission without being paralysed by fear of legal repercussions.

In this report, we examine how European museums perceive and manage legal risks, in particular related to copyright, data protection and governance of digital collections in their daily operations.

Why do #museums in Europe shy away from exhausting the possibilities available under the #copyright framework?

What prevents them from fulfilling their public mission to make knowledge and culture accessible to the broadest possible audience?

For more information, see our blog post:
communia-association.org/2025/08/25/c...