TY  - BOOK
ED  - Dulong de Rosnay, Melanie
ED  - De Martin, Juan Carlos
AB  - 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. The free PDF edition of this title was made possible by generous funding received from the European Union (eContentplus framework project ECP-2006-PSI-610001).
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0019
ID  - OAPEN ID: 633713
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1125451534
ID  - OAPEN ID: 2054-2410/2054-2429;2054-2410/2054-2410
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31257
KW  - copyright
KW  - cultural studies
KW  - communia
KW  - creative commons
KW  - internet regulation
KW  - the commons
KW  - licensing
KW  - digitization
KW  - digital age
KW  - copyright law
KW  - open culture
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Public domain
KW  - Resource Description Framework
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31257/1/633713.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31257/1/633713.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31257/1/633713.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31257/1/633713.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30008
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9781906924454
TI  - The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culturenull
ER  - 
