Post Tagged with: "public domain"

WIPO Publishes Study on the Public Domain

WIPO has published a scoping study on the public domain by Belgian law professor Séverine Dusollier.  The study includes discussion of the impact of anti-circumvention rules on access to public domain works.

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June 14, 2010 Comments are Disabled News

Public Domain Manifesto: Add Your Name Today

Lost amidst the ACTA news last week (on this blog at least) was the launch of the Public Domain Manifesto, a terrific initiative produced by a European group focused on the digital public domain.  Add your name today!

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February 3, 2010 Comments are Disabled News

Public Domain Day 2010

Wallace McLean posts his annual list of authors whose works enter into the public domain in Canada this year.  There is additional coverage of public domain day here and here.  The issue should resonate particularly strongly this year, given the news that the European Union is demanding that Canada extend […]

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January 1, 2010 Comments are Disabled News

Nobel Prize Winner on IP, Open Access and the Public Domain

Elinor Ostrom, this year's Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, has published on intellectual property, open access, and the public domain.

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October 14, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Jesse Brown: Publicly Funded Content Should Be Public Domain

Jesse Brown of Search Engine has a guest post at BoingBoing that stirred up considerable discussion.  Brown argues that publicly funded content should be released to the public domain within five years of creation.

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September 15, 2009 3 comments News