I limiti alla fruizione individuale dei beni culturali: una testimonianza di civiltà nella democrazia della cultura

Despite the need to liberalise the use and reproduction of the image of cultural heritage repeatedly identified in supranational legislation, the Italian legislator, in Legislative Decree 177/2021, preferred to keep the authorisation procedure established by the Cultural Heritage Code. Considering this choice, we have to ask ourselves if it represents a legislative resistance to the ‘democracy of culture’ or if, on the contrary, oxymoron of a ‘granted culture’ is still today the only instrument able to guarantee and safeguard the «memory of the national community».