Thursday, July 25

Please come to the workshops 10 minutes early to guarantee a spot!

Public recording of Ööülikool (Night University): "Am I the rightful heir of our traditional culture?"
Chamber Hall of Traditional Music Centre
THU 25.07 at 20.00

The open discussion is led by: senior researcher Taive Särg from the Estonian Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum, lecturer and researcher Kristina Kuznetsova-Bogdanovitsh from the UT Viljandi Culture Academy and curator and cultural manager Meelis Tammemägi.

A discussion on the topics of creation, copyright, and intellectual property in the field of traditional culture.

In the open discussion, experts and interested parties share their thoughts about the issues of creating, performing, recording, and the ownership in the context of intangible cultural heritage. They will examine the unique aspects of the creation process and products in oral, written, and recorded music culture. The aim is to articulate the key questions that will require ethical and legal solutions in the future, in cooperation with traditional communities.

Taive Särg says: "In the legal questions of folk music, different traditions meet – on one hand, the customary law of traditional societies, and on the other hand, the laws of modern society. Nowadays, we don’t really talk about the customary law as a phenomenon unique to traditional societies, which probably regulated the use of songs in the past and could still be researched today."

Meelis Tammemägi, who represents the cultural management students of the UT Viljandi Culture Academy, will present a legal solution developed as a group project in the intellectual property course. Their solution would provide everyone attending a culture event with an interesting insight into the birth process of author’s creation, which captivates the audience and should also put bread on the author’s table.

The project is funded by EUIPO.