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Cultural Heritage and IPR in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, intellectual property rights  (IPR) can be used not only to protect but also to monetize cultural heritage and tourism assets. This may include the registration of trademarks for cultural-historical values and tourist destinations, copyrights for historical documents and works of art, and patents for any new technologies or methods used in the preservation […]

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EU Commission boosts protection of European craft and industrial products

This is specifically interesting for the cultural heritage and the cultural tourism sectors: In April 2022, the European Commission has proposed a first-ever framework to protect the intellectual property for craft and industrial products that rely on the originality and authenticity of traditional practices from their regions. This framework will cover products such as Murano […]