Public domain or copyrighted material?
The song “Happy Birthday” has a long, litigious history dating back to the 1930s. Every year, people spent millions in royalties to use the song, until a class…
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Communia and the European Public Domain Project: A Politics of the Public Domain
Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed us…
COMMUNIA Final Report on the Digital Public Domain
This Public Report is the outcome of the work of the COMMUNIA Network on the Digital Public Domain. This Report was undertaken to (i) review the activities of C…
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Google Books Reaches Settlement With Publishers And Authors
Author: Matt Kellogg Google recently reached a settlement agreement with the authors and publishers who in 2005 sued the company for copyright infringement. A…