Hay (Husky) on Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:38:00 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: [Nettime-nl] FW: [Communia] Happy Public Domain Day 2010! |
Zie ook dit persbericht van Wikimedia UK: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2009/12/wikipedia-celebrates-public-domain-day-on-1st-january/ Onder andere de werken van Alfons Mucha, Sigmund Freud en William Butler Yeats zijn dit jaar in het publieke domein gekomen. Groet, -- Hay Kranen On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Maarten Brinkerink <mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl> wrote: > FYI > > ------ Doorgestuurd bericht > Van: bernardo parrella <berny@cybermesa.com> > Datum: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:13:41 -0700 > Aan: <communia@lists.communia-project.eu> > Onderwerp: [Communia] Happy Public Domain Day 2010! > > January 1st is Public Domain Day 2010 > > While New Year's Day is an occasion for great celebrations worldwide, we > shouldn't forget another special reason to celebrate January 1st: Public > Domain Day! In several countries, this day marks the expiration of copyright > protection terms on creative works produced by authors who died several > decades earlier (1939, for this 01/01/2010). Therefore in certain > jurisdictions such works enter the Public Domain, and their content is no > longer owned or controlled by anyone but it rather becomes available for > anyone to freely use for any purpose. In other words, on each year's January > 1st an impressive wealth of knowledge, information and beauty becomes freely > available to humankind. > > To celebrate this occasion, COMMUNIA is promoting a new website devoted to > Public Domain Day: http://www.publicdomainday.org. This project aims at > increasing the public awareness of this celebration and educating about the > Public Domain concept and its potentialities for spreading culture and > knowledge worldwide. The website is particularly focused on this Public > Domain Day 2010, providing useful resources and a detailed list of authors > and artists entering the Public Domain in several countries. > Happy Public Domain Day 2010! > > > More info: > http://communia-project.eu/node/355 > http://www.publicdomainday.org > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Feel free to forward this announcement wherever appropriate. > > For any inquiries or information: <press at communia-project.eu> > > Communia - The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain > http://communia-project.eu/ > > Contact: http://communia-project.eu/contacts > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Communia mailing list > Communia@lists.communia-project.eu > https://lists.communia-project.eu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/communia > > ------ Einde van doorgestuurd bericht > > ______________________________________________________ > * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet > * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een > * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. > * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: > * http://www.nettime.org/. > * Contact: Menno Grootveld (rabotnik@xs4all.nl). > ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: * http://www.nettime.org/. * Contact: Menno Grootveld (rabotnik@xs4all.nl).