COPYRIGHT ASPECTS OF DISCLOSURE OF WORKS WITHIN THE EUROPEANA DIGITAL LIBRARY.

This paper focuses on copyright aspects of disclosure of digitalized works within the European digital library Europeana project. The purpose of the online platform mentioned above - a platform that collects cultural treasures of libraries, museums and archives from all member states of the European Union - is to make European scientific and cultural heritage available for the general public. Digitalization and disclosure of the content of the library web portal is connected with many copyright aspects. This paper focuses on the legal framework, within which can the cultural memory institutions make copyrighted works available for the public. The basic prerequisite for the dissemination of a work is its copyright qualification for disclosure. This is the reason why the backbone of the Europeana digital library consists of public domains, whose intellectual property rights have expired. European digital library also has to solve the problem of possibility of online dissemination of copyrighted works and also deals with orphan works and out-ofcommerce works, because it is complicated to make them available for the public. This is why this paper focuses on the possibilities for orphan and out-of-commerce works' disclosure without breaking copyright laws. Due to the cross-border dissemination of copyrighted works, this paper also reflects the need for copyright protection in accordance with national, EU and international regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]