Comments on: UK Intellectual Property Office: what is in the Public Domain must stay in the Public Domain https://communia-association.org/2015/12/04/1761/ Website of the COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:27:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: UK Intellectual Property Office: what is in the Public Domain must stay in the Public Domain – International Communia Association « Analyzing Educational Technology https://communia-association.org/2015/12/04/1761/#comment-64178 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:48:48 +0000 http://communia-association.org/?p=1761#comment-64178 […] Sourced through Scoop.it from: communia-association.org […]

]]> By: UK Intellectual Property Office: what is in the Public Domain must stay in the Public Domain | Archivalia https://communia-association.org/2015/12/04/1761/#comment-64174 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 22:23:34 +0000 http://communia-association.org/?p=1761#comment-64174 […] http://communia-association.org/2015/12/04/1761/ It is not often that we find ourselves in agreement with the copyright policy positions of government entities entrusted with maintaining the copyright rules. Given this it is somewhat of a rare find to discover the UK Intelllectual Property Office (IPO) has recently thrown its full weight behind our policy recommendation #5 (‘Digital reproductions of works that are in the Public Domain must also belong to the Public Domain.’). In a recently updated copyright notice on ‘digital images, photographs and the internet’ the IPO provides the following answer to the question ‘Are digitised copies of older images protected by copyright?’ […]

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