Legal Issues of Museum Digitalization

Digitalization of all processes of society is a trend that can be traced throughout the world and in all spheres of society. The speed and interest of society in this process is due to the fact that the introduction of information technologies in a particular area allows reducing the cost of operating expenses, increases the availability of information, goods or services, and also erases cross-border barriers. New technologies are also actively being introduced and used in the activities of cultural institutions, making the content provided more interactive and personalized. Museum organizations, largely thanks to the crisis caused by the coronovirus pandemic, moved to a new stage of functioning and interaction with audiences, beginning to introduce methods into their work that made it possible to interact with visitors remotely. However, many museums have encountered a significant regulatory gap as they begin to digitize their collections. In the process of digital transformation, the problem of uncertainty of the legal status of the results of digitization of museum objects was identified, which largely slows down the replenishment of electronic archives, as well as their accessibility to the general public. To formulate recommendations for modernizing the regulatory framework, the work studied and systematized national and foreign legislation on the issue of the relationship between intellectual and museum rights and drew parallels between them. To determine the main regulatory aspects applied or recommended for use in this area, as well as to determine the degree of progress of legal culture in the selected area, an analysis of existing law enforcement practice was carried out, as well as research works and recommendations of public organizations were studied.