Universal will donate more than 200,000 master recordings from the '20-40s, to be published on the Web. [13jan11]
Universal will donate more than 200,000 master recordings from the '20-40s, to be published on the Web. [13jan11]
"Once again, absolutely nothing enters the Public Domain this year". [04jan11]
A new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities. [17dec10]
A scoping study by COMMUNIA member Prof. Severine Dusollier. [14jun10]
Within the activities of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Thematic Project on Intellectual Property and the Public Domain has just released a “Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain” by COMMUNIA member Prof. Severine Dusollier (University of Namur, Belgium). The English version is now available as a PDF file.
The final recommendations, in particular, are focused on fostering a "positive protection of that could preserve Public Domain against privatisation", stressing the need to reinforce the existing protection of public domain works and to finalise key objectives for a robust public domain across the world.
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