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- 1 September 2007
Events
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- COMMUNIA Workshop on Memory In...
University of Barcelona
Friday, October 2 at 9:00am - COMMUNIA Workshop on Public Br...
Geneva, Switzerland
Friday, January 23 at 8:00am - COMMUNIA Workshop on Marking t...
Amsterdam
Monday, October 20 at 8:00am
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- First meeting on Public Domain Calculators (10-11 november) 7:54pm Nov 19
- Google Books agreement revised: no exclusive rights for 'orphan works' 9:16pm Nov 16
- COMMUNIA Newsletter - October 2009 1:24pm Oct 30
As part of its on-going activities, COMMUNIA is now hosting a series of meetings devoted to Public Domain Calculators, as a specific task of the Working Group on Mapping the Public Domain...
COMMUNIA "Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education" - http://communia-project.eu/node/345
From The New York Times: Google and groups representing book publishers and authors filed a modified version of their controversial books settlement with a federal court on Friday...
COMMUNIA
A video-lecture by Michael Geist on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Canada: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/12/eve
COMMUNIA
Would it make sense to tax intellectual property as property is taxed? Intellectual property taxes could promote the public domain culture. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/web/
Here below please find the October edition of our monthly newsletter, with a selection of updated news about Communia activities and other issues related to the digital Public Domain. [30oct09] read more
The workshop, held on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 October 2009 at the University of Barcelona in Spain, started with a keynote by Dr...
In a great blow for consumers everywhere, the prospect of 3-strikes for copyright infringers has returned with a vengeance, as both the EU Council and French Constitutional court pushed forward with their respective legislation...
Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009) is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public...
Recently Amazon has been adding public domain titles to its Kindle eBook store at a frantic pace: over 18,000 titles are now available as free downloads...
Here below please find some selected news related to latest and upcoming activities and events of COMMUNIA - The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain. [27sept09] read more
This project promises to make full-text articles available to the public, for free...
Michael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa and long-time copyright reform advocate, has published a detailed submission for the current public consultation process. Among several provisions, he proposes: "Enhance the public domain. Don’t extend the length of copyright even further... ...
The proposed Google Book Settlement was on the agenda at the recent 2009 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Conference. Among other speakers, Jonathan Band of Policybandwidth.com gave an overview of the Google Book Settlement...
Here below please find some selected news related to latest and upcoming activities and events of COMMUNIA - The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain.[05aug09] read more
