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Public Domain
No full textLearning Objectives: Describe the public domain’s scope and relationship with copyright; Recognize the three categories of works in the public domain;
Identify public domain works; Contribute your own works to the public domain
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The Size of the EU Public Domain
Get PDFThis paper reports results from a large recent study of the public domain in the European Union. Based on a combination of catalogue and survey data our figures for the number of items (and works) in the public domain extend across a variety of media and provide one of the first quantitative estimates of the `size' of the public domain in any jurisdiction
Research Perspectives on the Public Domain
Get PDFThis document presents an edited transcript of the one-day event, ‘Research Perspectives on the Public Domain’, held at the University of Glasgow on 11thOctober, 2013. The public domain is a subject of vital interest to legal scholars, but its implications are far reaching – indeed, the public domain concept is germane to subjects as diverse as film and media studies, economics, political science and organisational theory. It was a central purpose of the workshop to arrive at a workable definition of the public domain suitable for empirical investigation. The traditional definition (1) takes the copyright term as the starting point, and defines the public domain as “out of copyright”, i.e. all uses of a copyright work are possible. A second, more fine-grained definition (2) still relies on the statutory provisions of copyright law, and asks what activities are possible with respect to a copyright work without asking for permission (e.g. because use is related to “underlying ideas” not appropriating substantial expressions, or because use is covered by specific copyright exceptions). A third definition (3) includes as part of the public domain all uses that are possible under permissive private ordering schemes (such as creative commons licences). A forth definition (4) moves into a space that includes use that would formally be copyright infringement but is endorsed, or at least tolerated by certain communities of practice (e.g. machinima or fan fiction).
The conference was designed to test these definitional approaches, and national and international speakers from relevant disciplinary fields were invited to share their research projects, with a particular focus on the underlying concept of the public domain. This document is a citable documentation of those presentations, along with a panel discussion that followed. This event was funded through a Knowledge Exchange grant, ‘Valuing the Public Domain’, from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC ES/K008137/1) and the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO). The digital resource was funded by CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (AH/K000179/1).
Slide presentations from the event can be downloaded at:
http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2014/01/24/research-perspectives-on-the-public-domain-transcript-and-presentations
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The Value of the EU Public Domain
Get PDFThis paper reports results from a large recent study of the public domain
in the European Union. Based on a combination of catalogue, commercial and survey data we present detailed fi gures both on the prices (and price di fferences) of in copyright and public domain material and on the usage of that material. Combined with the estimates for the size of the EU public domain presented in the companion paper Pollock and Stepan (2009) our results allow us to provide the fi rst quantitative estimate for the `value' of the public domain (i.e. welfare gains from its existence) in any jurisdiction
The public domain: enclosing the commons of the mind
Get PDFOur music, our culture, our science and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In his award-winning book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today’s policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its inception
Public Domain - Binge
No full textCommon Culture exhibited a series of photo-posters from their Binge series.
Public Domain, in Platform in Project @ Art-Athina Stand 25
4-7 June 2015, Faliron Pavilion, Athens, Greece. The project consists in 50 interventions in the public space of 25 different cities, and has been presented in 2 phases: first in Stockholm Supermarket Independent Art- Fair in 2012 and successively in Geneva Milkshake-agency project space in 2014.
Curated by: Artemis Potamianou and Giorgos Papadatos.
Essays by: Elpida Karaba, Costantina Theodorou, Eva Fotiadi and Kostis Stafylakis
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Participating artists: Lanfranco Aceti - Elena Bajo - Ludovic Bernhardt - Bianco-Valente - Marc Bijl & Alejandro Vidal - Erik Binder - Campus Novel - Dimitris Christidis - Common Culture - Julie René de Cotret - Benoît Delaunay - Alix Delmas -Guillaume Durand - Yiannis Grigoriadis - Gaël Grivet - Guerrilla Girls - Giorgos Gyparakis - Emma Hammarén - Internationale Surplace - Yiannis Isidorou - Lilli Kinnunen - Thanos Klonaris - Stephen Lee - Maria Lianou - Tea Mäkipää - Sanna Marander - Eva Marathaki - Jenny Marketou - Dimitra Marouda - Maro Michalakakos - Tanja Ostojic - Eftihis Patsourakis - Celine Peruzzo - Derrick Piens - Iris Plaitakis - Theo Prodromidis - Luke Ralphs - Erika Rothenberg - Société Réaliste - Vassiliea Stylianidou - Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos - Lina Theodorou - Magnus Thierfelder - Eugenio Tibaldi - Sofia Touboura - Nikos Tranos - Alexia Turlin - Andreas Voussouras - Theodoros Zafeiropoulos - Italo Zuf
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Palm tree leaves
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Copyright and the Value of the Public Domain: an empirical assessment
Get PDFThis Report is the outcome of a knowledge exchange scheme which brings together academics (from the disciplines of law, media & communication studies, management and economics), policy makers from the Intellectual Property Office (an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) and media businesses (in particular transmedia SMEs) to generate and disseminate new knowledge about the use of public domain works
Application of Public Domain Satellite-based DEMs in Geohazard Modeling
Get PDFWith the invention of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and Geohazard computer models, the role of digital elevation model (DEM) has become very important and effective tools in Geohazard modeling. Flood inundation mapping, landslide susceptibility mapping and wind velocity mapping are examples that effectively employ the DEM and its derivatives as one of the important modeling inputs. On the other hand, satellite based DEMs have been growing rapidly in recent years. There are several sources of DEMs available ranging from very coarse to high resolution which provides geospatial data in different scales. This paper describe the specification and applications of public domain satellite-based DEMs including SRTM and ASTER-GDEM which, are globally free. From several applications, the scope is limited to the application of public domain satellite DEMs in flood potential mapping which is considered a widespread Geohazard. From the result, it was found that several advantages were recognized for public domain satellite–based DEMs including ease of accessibility, elimination of institutional bureaucracy, unlimited coverage, adequate spatial resolution, and more importantly, they are available free of charg
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