ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS RELATED TO IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT ON THE REUSE OF PUBLIC-SECTOR INFORMATION AT MUSEUMS

Abstract

The article discusses both the legal and factual problems related to the necessity of implementing the provisions of the Act on the reuse of public sector information (PSI) of 25 February 2016. The authors highlight the inaccuracies in the way the statutory provisions have been formulated, and which require urgent intervention by legislators due to their doubtful interpretation and the conflict of the Act’s provisions on reuse with those of other acts, in particular the Act on museums. They also identify the discrepancies between how museums currently share their collections and the requirements set by the Act on the reuse of PSI. Individual practical problems are discussed in separate parts of the text. The aim of the article is not to settle the doubts concerning the Act on reuse of PSI, nor to decide what museums should do in that matter, but rather to draw attention to possible ways of interpreting the provisions and the related problems.

Keywords

• public sector information
• heritage resources
• reuse
• statutory provisions
• sharing museum collections