Museums play a key role in the promotion of culture and art, which requires proper management of intellectual property rights of the works they house, in particular, those of reproduction and public communication.

To debate the management of these rights, the present Museum and Intellectual Property Conference is organized, which bears the title "Between the Public and the Private", due to this vocation of service to the general interest and, in particular, the promotion and access to culture, which Museums hold, but which must be combined with the recognition and protection of the rights of authors and, of course, the relationship of works with the public, especially in the digital sphere.

Speakers

ANA JOSÉ GANGA FERRIZ. Lawyer. Specialist in cultural rights and intellectual property. Cultural manager. Currently, Legal Counsel in the Legal Services of the Illustrious Provincial Council of Alicante.

JESÚS PRIETO DE PEDRO. Doctor of Law, Professor of Administrative Law at UNED and holder of the Andrés Bello Chair of Cultural Rights. He has been Dean and Vice-Rector of UNED and Director of the Inter-University Institute for Cultural Communication (UNED, UC3M, UIMP). Director General of Fine Arts, Cultural Heritage and Archives and Libraries. His research and work has been fundamentally focused on the Law of Culture.

JAVIER GUTIÉRREZ VICEN. General Director of VEGAP, the management entity for visual plastic artists.

JOAN LLINARES. Law graduate. Currently in the Legal Services of the Barcelona City Council. Management technician and administrator of IVAM almost since the museum's founding, for 13 years he was its Deputy General Director of Administration. Manager of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) between 2001 and 2009. Expert in intellectual property and management of cultural and museum heritage.

RAFAEL AZUAR RUIZ. Doctor of Philosophy and Letters from the Universitat d'Alacant (1987) and Conservator-Cataloguer by competitive examination of the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante since 1982. He directed the project and execution of the new Archaeological Museum of Alicante, the current MARQ, where he is currently Head of the Collections and Excavations Unit. He has been President of the executive committee of ICOM-Spain.