Since July 2003 and until April 2018, the Nexa Center hosted and coordinated the activities of the working group of Creative Commons Italy (CC-IT). During the reporting period, in the context of an overall strategy concerning the redesign of its Global Network, Creative Commons Corporation unilaterally terminated all its Memoranda of Understanding with national affiliates. In this context and considering the current research focus of the Nexa staff and fellows and the fact of having recently concluded the work to release the official Italian translation of CC licenses in their 4.0 version, the Nexa Center has decided not to apply to join the new CC Global Network as an Institutional Member.
Creative Commons (CC) is a project building a new and more flexible paradigm for copyright. CC develops standardized copyright licenses and other (optional) technical tools to assist authors wanting to share some of their rights with users and fellow authors in a way that is easy, flexible and legally rigorous.
Creative Commons Italia is a project and working group that translates, adapts and checks the compatibility of CC licenses with the Italian legal setting. The project also manages the website and mailing-lists of CreativeCommons.it, collecting and spreading news and information about the project, and deals with awareness, dissemination, and some community building activities. In 2013/2014, CC-IT concentrated its effort in the drafting and translation process of the CC4.0 licenses. Also, to better fulfill its dissemination purposes the CreativeCommons.it website is currently being updated.
During the reporting period, CC Italy (jointly) released (with CC Corporation) the official Italian translation of Creative Commons Public Licenses in their 4.0 version. In parallel, the CC-IT team continued to answer several email and phone inquiries concerning CC each month. The creativecommons.it website also continued to be popular, with a total of 68,899 visits from 53,963 different users exploring 155,440 pages.
Consistently with its historical commitment to supporting the CC community, and despite the termination of the MoU with CC Corporation, the Nexa Center also accepted to continue to maintain and administer the creativecommons.it website for a limited time period, in order to facilitate the handover of such activities to a forming Italian Chapter within the new Creative Commons Global Network.
2014
Artusio, Claudio Guido Mario; Morando, Federico
Creative Commons 4.0 licenses: a sui generis challenge? Conference
CeDEM14 Proceedings of the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, Edition Donau-Universität Krems, 2014, ISBN: 9783902505354.
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The Sui Generis Database Rights (SGDR) protection grants an exclusive right on databases when a substantial investment is required to collect and arrange the database contents. Since this specific protection makes any re-use of such contents impossible without an explicit permission, therefore directly impacting on the exploitation of Open Data, managing SGDR (where exsisting) – e.g. by adopting a license – is crucial for any public body who wants to make its data available for re-use. The paper examines the new features introduced in the 4.0 version of the Creative Commons Public Licenses, with particular attention to the treatment of SGDR to describe the suitability of the 4.0 version in the specific field of Open Data licensing and re-use. The evaluation has been conducted in light of the current EU legal framework on database rights, also considering the issue of interoperability with other existing database licenses.
2012
Ricolfi, Marco
Consume and Share: Making Copyright Fit for the Digital Agenda Book Chapter
In: The Digital Public Domain, pp. 49–60, Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, 2012, ISBN: 9781906924454.
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2011
Ricolfi, Marco
Making Copyright Fit For the Digital Agenda Journal Article
In: Il Diritto d’Autore, vol. LXXXII, pp. 359–372, 2011.
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It is high time copyright as we have known it in the last three centuries is replaced; the EU should take the initiative as a part of its digital agenda
Ricolfi, Marco; Morando, Federico; Rubiano, Camilo; Hsu, Shirley; Ouma, Marisella; Martin, Juan Carlos De
Survey of Private Copyright Documentation Systems and Practices Book
World Intellectual Property Organization – Enabling Creativity in the Digital Environment: Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure, Ginevra, 2011.
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Private copyright registration and documentation systems around the world arguably constitute the largest pool of information concerning copyright and related rights. Undoubtedly, these same systems provide the greatest online free access of the same pool of information.
Private copyright registration systems collect, store, and manage relevant data as provided by registrants. Traditionally, public registries contain data related to the works, the authorship, and the rights of ownership; and, can often serve as reliable evidence to be used in a trial by right-holders.
Using a wide array of technological tools, private registries systematically collect such data and other relevant information to offer guarantees related to the time of registration, the characteristics of the registered works and the identity of the registrant (with a higher or lower degree of trust). Most registries make this information (or at least a subset of it) available to the public.
2008
Glorioso, Andrea; Mazziotti, Giuseppe
Alcune riflessioni sulle licenze Creative Commons e i diritti connessi Journal Article
In: Il Diritto d’Autore, 2008.
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Ricolfi, Marco
Copyright Policy for digital libraries in the context of the i2010 strategy (a.k.a., the “Copyright 2.0” paper) Conference
COMMUNIA Conference 2008, Louvaine-la-Neuve 2008.
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