Beyond the wall between what is protected… and what is not. The question was raised in Berlin. The 1st Berlin Symposium on Internet and Society was held last week (October 25-28, 2011), on the occasion of the inauguration of the Humboldt University’s new multi-disciplinary Research Institute on Internet and Society (IIC, Institut für Internet and […]
Today the COMMUNIA International Association presents its first policy paper. The paper analyzes the European Commission’s proposed directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works (COM/2011/0289) in the light of its effects on the Public Domain. The paper contains suggestions for improving the directive to make it more suitable to the stated objective of increasing […]
Works that have fallen into the public domain after their term of copyright protection has elapsed can be freely used by everybody. In theory that means that these works can be reused by anyone for any purpose which includes commercial exploitation. In theory the public domain status increases access to our shared knowledge and culture […]
Join us in Warsaw before the CC Global Summit for a kickoff workshop that will bring together stakeholders to begin a global project to encourage GLAM institutions to make their metadata and digital copies of public domain works freely and openly available for all to reuse without restriction. Thursday, September 15, 2011 from 10:00 AM […]
At the occasion of the 1st Digital Agenda Assembly and the corresponding launch of the COMMUNIA Association, the COMMUNIA Association has published a set of 14 postcards with 14 policy recommendations. The policy recommendations have been drawn up by the members of the COMMUNIA project and they serve as guidelines for the works of the […]
Melanie Dulong de Rosnay will be presenting Communia at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (http://infojustice.org/public-events/global-congress) at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC on August 26 during a session on Open Access and the Public Domain (http://infojustice.org/public-events/global-congress/abstracts/open-acce…)
After almost four years of activities, the COMMUNIA Project is closing down. But many members, willing to pursue its overall goals, decided to form of an International Non-Profit Association based in Brussels. The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society […]
16 June 2011 (from 21:00 onwards) Venue: THE MONK CAFÉ Rue Ste-Catherine, 42 (BRUSSELS) Programme: Open discussion about the public domain in the digital world, the future challenges Prospectives on the future activity of Communia Drinks and networking
Communia Association will be presented at the Open Knowledge Conference, on July 1st, 2011 at 18:30 by Melanie Dulong, Maarten Brinkerink and Peter Troxler. For more information check out http://okcon.org/2011/programme/communia-the-international-association-o…
The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the knowledge economy. It alerts Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections to the fact that digitization of Public Domain content does not create new rights in it. The document highlights the Public Domain […]
