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COMMUNIA Final Report available online 18 May 2012 | 08:17 am
The COMMUNIA Final Report (as approved by the EU Commission) is finally available online. This Report provides a useful insight on the activities of COMMUNIA, while also addressing the state of the d...
Publication of the COMMUNIA book "The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture" 15 Apr 2012 | 04:28 am
The book "The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture", edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin as an output of the Communia Thematic Network, is out in all formats...
Launch of the COMMUNIA Non-Profit Association 15 Jun 2011 | 02:39 am
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 ...
"Open Access" for Yale's vast cultural heritage collections 14 May 2011 | 04:57 am
Yale University announced a new "Open Access" policy that gives free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale's museums, archives, and libraries. More than 250,000 images are alre...
PORTO - Publication Open Repository TOrino 12 May 2011 | 06:21 pm
From May 13th, with PORTO, the scientific papers produced by the academic community of the Politecnico di Torino will begin to be freely accessible online. At this time, the knowledge produced by uni...
"Mozart, C'est Vous!" online competition 8 Apr 2011 | 09:25 am
The Opéra de Lyon has launched an innovative music competition, entirely managed online and based on public domain content. "Mozart, C'est Vous!" includes 16 original compositions covering various gen...
Open Data Challenge: EU's biggest ever public data competition 6 Apr 2011 | 02:19 pm
Given that EU public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year -- from how our tax money is spent to the quality of the air we breathe -- this new project is an open call to desig...
The Public Domain Manifesto in the current history of the Internet 25 Mar 2011 | 01:24 pm
Owni.eu, an innovative project of digital journalism, covering technology, politics and culture in French and English, published an interesting piece about the history of the Internet. Actually, it is...
Can public domain works be "restored" into copyright? 9 Mar 2011 | 10:28 pm
The US Supreme Court will says it will hear a case considering whether public domain works can be "re-copyrighted." And advocacy groups say that free speech is at stake in this fight. Congress' decisi...
International Music Score Library Project: humanity’s musical treasures freely available 23 Feb 2011 | 02:17 pm
The International Music Score Library Project, a Web site founded five years ago by a conservatory student, then 19 years old, has made a vast expanse of musical treasures available for free. This pub...
