The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

This new work [...] dives into the tension between digital culture—which enables easy sharing and remixing by content consumers—and the copyright-driven backlash to that potential openness.
The Digital Public Domain [...] brings together a range of exciting articles on the topic. After a general introduction to the phenomenon of the digital commons follow three articles deal with the legal bases before the various dimensions of the "digital public domain" are illustrated with concrete examples and questions in seven posts.
Emerging from the EU-funded European research network "COMMUNIA—The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain" , Communia is an organization promoting the digital commons and their significance for science, business, art and culture. [...] This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy-makers who [...] argue that the Public Domain, that is the digital works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational or public sector material, is fundamental to a healthy society.
Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture's use—copyright and related rights—have become increasingly restrictive.
This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, who were all part of the EU-funded Communia project. Together the authors argue that the Public Domain—that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information—is fundamental to a healthy society.
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.
This book is part of our Digital Humanities Series.
The European Union: eContentplus framework project ECP-2006-PSI-610001 has generously contributed towards the publication of this volume.
The European Union: eContentplus framework project ECP-2006-PSI-610001 has generously contributed towards the publication of this volume.
The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture
Dulong de Rosnay, Melanie and De Martin, Juan (eds) | March 2012
xxv + 220 | 6.14" x 9.21" (234 x 156 mm)
Digital Humanities Series, vol. 2 | ISSN: 2054-2410 (Print); 2054-2429 (Online)
ISBN Paperback: 9781906924454
ISBN Hardback: 9781906924461
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781906924478
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781906924751
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781906924768
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0019
BIC subject codes: UBJ (Ethical and social aspects of internet technology), LNRC (Copyright Law); BISAC subject codes: COM021030 ( COMPUTERS/ Database/ Data Mining), SCI043000 SCIENCE/ Research & Methodology), SOC024000 (SOCIAL SCIENCES/ Research), LAW021000 (LAW / Copyright see Intellectual Property / Copyright); OCLC Number: 810232723
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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
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
© 2012 Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin

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