Launch of the COMMUNIA Non-Profit Association

After almost four years of activities, the COMMUNIA Project is closing down. But many members, willing to pursue its overall goals, decided to form of an International Non-Profit Association based in Brussels. The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society […]

16 June 2011 (from 21:00 onwards) Venue: THE MONK CAFÉ Rue Ste-Catherine, 42 (BRUSSELS) Programme: Open discussion about the public domain in the digital world, the future challenges Prospectives on the future activity of Communia Drinks and networking

Communia Association will be presented at the Open Knowledge Conference, on July 1st, 2011 at 18:30 by Melanie Dulong, Maarten Brinkerink and Peter Troxler. For more information check out http://okcon.org/2011/programme/communia-the-international-association-o…

The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the knowledge economy. It alerts Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections to the fact that digitization of Public Domain content does not create new rights in it. The document highlights the Public Domain […]

Developed within the COMMUNIA network during the last two years, we are pleased to announce the official launch of The Public Domain Manifesto. The document outlines a series of general principles (opening with: the Public Domain is the rule, copyright protection is the exception), then addresses various issues relevant to today’s cultural landscape finally provides […]