The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

The essays range from more theoretical papers on the history of copyright and the Public Domain, to practical examples and case studies of recent projects that have engaged with the principles of Open Access and Creative Commons licensing. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the current debate about copyright and the Internet. It opens up discussion and offers practical solutions to the difficult question of the regulation of culture at the digital age.

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Foreword
Charles Nesson

Introduction
Melanie Dulong de Rosnayand Juan Carlos De Martin

Manifesto and Policy Recommendations

I. Introducing the Digital Public Domain
1. Communia and the European Public Domain Project: A Politics of the Public Domain
Giancarlo Frosio

II. Legal Framework
2. Consume and Share: Making Copyright Fit for the Digital Agenda
Marco Ricolfi
3. Evaluation of the Directive 2001/29/EC in the Digital Information Society
Lucie Guibault
4. Building Digital Commons through Open Access Management of Copyright-related Rights
Giuseppe Mazziotti

III. Developments and Case Studies
5. Contractually-constructed Research Commons: A Critical Economic Appraisal
Enrico Bertacchini
6. Social Motivations and Incentives in Ex Situ Conservation of Microbial Genetic Resources
Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Per M. Stromberg and Unai Pascual
7. Open Knowledge: Promises and Challenges
Rufus Pollock and Jo Walsh
8. Science Commons: Building the Research Web
Kaitlin Thaney
9. The DRIVER Project: The Socio-economic Benefits of a European Scientific Commons
Karen Van Godtsenhoven
10. CC REL: The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language
Hal Abelson, Ben Adida, Mike Linksvayer and Nathan Yergler
11. The Value of Registering Creative Works
Roland Alton Scheidl, Joe Benso and Martin Springer

Select Bibliography of Resources Cited

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay is a researcher at the Institute for Communication Sciences of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris. She is also legal project lead for Creative Commons France which she co-founded in 2003 at CERSA/CNRS University Paris 2. In 2011 she co-founded Communia, the international association on the digital public domain, which she currently chairs. She has also been a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and Science Commons, and a researcher at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam. She works on comparative public policies for open access to knowledge with a focus on scientific publications and data and cultural heritage.

Juan Carlos De Martin is a Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and co-director of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at the Politecnico of Torino, Italy, which he co-founded in 2006. He is a Professor of Computer Engineering, with research interests focusing on digital media processing and transmission. De Martin also serves as a member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani and of the Biennale Democrazia. As well as his many peer-reviewed academic articles and essays, he is a frequent op-ed contributor to La Stampa, one of Italy's leading newspapers.

© 2012 Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin


The articles of this book are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported license.
Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin, The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0019