Public Domain Day 2012

When: 26.01.2012
Where: Paris
The Fête champêtre by Dirck Hals (cropped)

Following the trend established by the Communia Thematic Network, we celebrated Public Domain Day in Paris on the 26th of January with an event organised by the COMMUNIA Association, Wikimedia France, Creative Commons France, the CNRS Institute for Communication Sciences and the Open Knowledge Foundation.

What unites all these organisations is that they share the common goal of encouraging the dissemination of knowledge and information, including – but not limited to – works that are in the public domain.

The event ended with a series of informal discussions around a cocktail in order to celebrate the public domain and the success of the public domain day.

A colourful, dotted landscape with a group of people standing in the midst of a forest clearing.
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