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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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- COMMUNIA Newsletter - October 2009 1:24pm Oct 30
- Report on 6th Communia workshop (Barcelona, 1-2/10/09) 3:22pm Oct 29
- "3-strikes" legislation for copyright infringers still a threat 7:22pm Oct 26
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
We just completed our second (and final) Member Enlargement, with a very large majority of the 41 current members expressing their voting preferences for the following ten new members (out of 13 applications received): 1. Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 2. Ljudmila (NGO), Slovenia 3...
The third and final COMMUNIA conference will be held in Torino on Monday-Wednesday 28-30 June 2010 (just before the start of the EuroScience Open Forum 2010)...
On June 19-20 the New York University's Law School hosted an exciting event: the first edition of the Open Video Conference: "Over 800 attendees (and thousands more online) discussed this medium’s implications on software, politics, journalism, art, education, industry, business, technology, c...
Under the title Memory Institutions and the Public Domain, the 6th Communia Workshop will take place on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 October 2009 at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Please read below for the general programme.[29sep09] read more
