Brigitte Vézina

Brigitte is Director of Policy and Open Culture at Creative Commons, where she runs the Open Culture Program to promote better sharing of cultural heritage. At COMMUNIA, she works on policy matters impacting the cultural heritage sector, and her favourite recommendation is #10.

The Vitruvian Man: A Puzzling Case for the Public Domain

March 1, 2023
Relates to
Policy Recommendation #4
Last Friday, news broke of the order taken by the court of first instance of Venice on a precautionary judgement served by Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, a public museum under the Italian Ministry of Culture. At stake: a Ravensburger puzzle representing the famous 1490s drawing Vitruvian Man by Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci. The […]

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The Uffizi vs. Jean Paul Gaultier: A Public Domain Perspective

October 25, 2022
Relates to
Policy Recommendation #4
Policy Recommendation #5
Two weeks ago, the Uffizi Gallery sent ripples through the open community by suing French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier for using Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1483) — which is on display in the Uffizi — in a clothing collection. Botticelli’s death in 1510 preceded the birth of copyright by centuries and his […]

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Brigitte Vézina

Blog posts by Brigitte Vézina

The Vitruvian Man: A Puzzling Case for the Public Domain

The Uffizi vs. Jean Paul Gaultier: A Public Domain Perspective