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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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- Happy Public Domain Day! 2:56am Dec 31
- The Public Domain Works registry 1:08pm Dec 29
- How to - hopefully - rescue public domain from paywalls (in USA) 10:12am Dec 7
While New Year's Day is an occasion for great celebrations worldwide, we shouldn't forget another special reason to celebrate January 1st: Public Domain Day...
COMMUNIA Sprixi helps to find images online that are free and in the public domain for quick use. http://communia-project.eu/node/353
The Public Domain Works database is an open registry of artistic works that are in the public domain. It is currently focused on books and sound recordings. read more
COMMUNIA "Where Does My Money Go?": Online tools to analyse and visualise UK public spending.
communia-project.eu
The Open Knowledge Foundation has created a project enabling everyone to easily understand British government spending. Where Does My Money Go? is a great example of innovation that benefits not only the ...
Carl Malamud - US technologist, author, and public domain advocate - details an often overlooked problem with content stored in the US National Archives (that is, public domain material) which should be free and easy to access for anybody (online and offline)...
We are in the midst of a revolution in the way that knowledge and culture are created, accessed and transformed...
"Ownership rights pose a real danger to scientific progress for the public good," explains John Sulston (2002 Nobel prize winner in Medicine), in an article published on The Guardian website. "IP rights are beginning to permeate every area of scientific endeavour...
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...
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A video-lecture by Michael Geist on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Canada: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/12/eve
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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...
