CULTURAL POLICY AND GOVERNANCE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL CREATIVITY
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v7.i4s.2026.7444Keywords:
Digital Creativity, Cultural Policy, Digital Governance, Artificial Intelligence In Art, Cultural Heritage Digitization, Creative EconomyAbstract [English]
The blistering growth of digital technologies has put a major shift in cultural production, distribution, and governance all over the globe. With the advent of digital art, web-based creative platforms, and the use of artistic works by artificial intelligence and generative tools, the process of creating, sharing, and consuming works of art has been re-established. On the one hand, these inventions increase the accessibility, engagement and cultural exchange around the globe, on the other hand, they create issues of governance and policymaking that are complicated by the questions of intellectual property rights, ownership, ethical regulation as well as cultural preservation. This paper discusses the changing culture policy and governance in the digital age of creative processes through the fusion of digital transformation in cultural production and the contribution of the emerging technologies like artificial intelligence on creative processes. The study also explores the national and global policy frameworks to govern the digital cultural ecosystems with a focus on the roles of governments, cultural organisations and technology firms in the development of responsible digital cultural regulation. The major problems of governance such as protection of copyright, regulation of works created by AI, the balance of the cultural maintenance and the technological development are discussed critically. Also, there are select case studies of government-funded digital art projects, cultural heritage digitization projects, and policy reactions to AI-enhanced creative platforms that are being utilized to demonstrate how governance can be applied practically.
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