Paying Public Domain and the Albanian Protection of Folklore
Paying Public Domain and the Albanian Protection of Folklore

Summary/Abstract: Paying Public Domain (PPD) is probably a contradictory phrase for everyone firmly attached to the idea of free-access and no-remuneration public domain. With French origin, the domaine public payant is an incentive to creativity, applied to creations already in the public domain because of their expired copyright protection or rather when they are legally excluded from it. This paper aims to explain the PPD regimes still standing and analyze how they are applied. Albania is among the countries with the PPD related to an important cultural heritage: folklore. The paper clarifies the role of the PPD and its characteristics and highlights the need to activate it by proposing concrete legal measures in achieving this goal.

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