IViR is pleased to introduce our new visiting researcher Laura Di Nicola.
IViR is committed to welcoming PhD candidates, post-doctoral and senior researchers in the field of information law, to exchange ideas and provide an environment where researchers from different places can learn from each other.
Laura Di Nicola is a PhD candidate in Comparative and European Legal Studies at the University of Trento (Italy). She holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Trento, awarded 110 cum laude with a dissertation on “Artistic Appropriation in Visual Art: A Comparison Between Italy and the United States”.
Following graduation, she worked as a trainee lawyer at a firm specialising in civil and intellectual property law.
She collaborated on the “ReCreating Europe” project at the University of Trento. This opportunity enabled her to expand her knowledge of cultural heritage digitisation. She then won a PhD scholarship at the same University to further expand her research.
As a PhD student, she completed a four-month visiting period at the CREATe Centre (University of Glasgow). She is currently undertaking a two-month visiting period at IViR (University of Amsterdam).
Her research project is part of the digital transformation framework established by the NRRP for the creation, protection, and promotion of digitized cultural heritage by Italian cultural institutions. Her study examines the legal implications of digitizing cultural heritage and the challenges faced by cultural institutions. In this context, the regulations governing the protection and promotion of cultural heritage intersect with those concerning copyright law and data regulation, both at the national and supranational levels, resulting in a complex, fragmented, and uncertain regulatory framework. The research project aims to critically assess the current regulatory framework regarding access to and reuse of reproductions of digital cultural heritage, highlighting its limitations and potential.