Communia: the International Association on the Public Domain
Website: http://www.communia-association.org/ Status: concluded Period: September 2007 – February 2011 Funding: Virtually none (association fees to cover costs) Funding organization: None (the EU Communia project funded the incorporation) Person(s) in charge:Federico Morando
Executive summary
The Communia International Association on the Public Domain is a network of researchers and practitioners from universities, NGOs and SME established in 10 European Member States.
The Association, co-funded by the Nexa Center, is becoming a point of reference within the European and International debate about the policies impacting on the public domain. In particular, Communia is based in Brussels to maximize its opportunities to interact with the European Commission and Parliament and it became a permanent observer at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The Communia Association was incorporated under Belgian law during the Spring of 2012 gathering several of the most active members of Communia.
Objectives
Communia aimed at framing the general discourse on and around the public domain in the digital environment by highlighting the challenges and opportunities arising from technological innovation, cultural development, and socio-economic change.
The Communia Association builds on these basis to foster, strengthen, and enrich the Public Domain. More specifically, the Association will educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and conduct research on the public domain in the digital age within society and with policy-makers.
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title = { Risposta del Centro Nexa alla consultazione sulle linee guida per l'implementazione della nuova Direttiva PSI},
author = {Nexa Center for Internet & Society},
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/psi_guidelines_consultation-nexa_answer.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-11-22},
urldate = {2013-11-22},
abstract = {Risposta del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società alla consultazione promossa dalla Commissione europea al fine di raccogliere commenti ed impressioni propedeutiche alla redazione di linee guida implementative, a supporto della nuova direttiva sull'Informazione del Settore Pubblico (2013/37/EU) di recente adozione.},
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Risposta del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società alla consultazione promossa dalla Commissione europea al fine di raccogliere commenti ed impressioni propedeutiche alla redazione di linee guida implementative, a supporto della nuova direttiva sull’Informazione del Settore Pubblico (2013/37/EU) di recente adozione.
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title = {Is there such a thing as free government data?},
author = {Federico Morando and Raimondo Iemma and Simone Basso},
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year = {2013},
date = {2013-11-21},
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journal = {Internet Policy Review},
number = {4},
publisher = {Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society},
abstract = {This article provides a brief review of the public sector information pricing issues. It then discusses the terms under which the ongoing consultation on the implementation guidelines of the PSI directive addresses pricing. In particular, this article discusses the calculation criteria for marginal costs.},
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This article provides a brief review of the public sector information pricing issues. It then discusses the terms under which the ongoing consultation on the implementation guidelines of the PSI directive addresses pricing. In particular, this article discusses the calculation criteria for marginal costs.
@misc{nokey,
title = {Il Centro Nexa in merito alla consultazione AGCOM sul diritto d'autore (n. 452/13)},
author = {Marco Ricolfi and Juan Carlos De Martin and Carlo Blengino and Alessandro Cogo and Federico Morando},
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/nexa_consultazione_agcom_452_13.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-09-23},
abstract = {Osservazioni del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società sullo schema di regolamento allegato alla delibera n. 452/13/CONS del 25 luglio 2013 in materia di tutela del diritto d'autore sulle reti di comunicazione elettronica e procedure attuative ai sensi del decreto legislativo 9 aprile 2003, n. 70.},
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Osservazioni del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società sullo schema di regolamento allegato alla delibera n. 452/13/CONS del 25 luglio 2013 in materia di tutela del diritto d’autore sulle reti di comunicazione elettronica e procedure attuative ai sensi del decreto legislativo 9 aprile 2003, n. 70.
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title = {Consume and Share: Making Copyright Fit for the Digital Agenda},
author = {Marco Ricolfi},
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Consume-and-Share-Making-Copyright-Fit-for-the-Digital-Agenda-1.pdf},
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year = {2012},
date = {2012-05-05},
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booktitle = {The Digital Public Domain},
pages = {49–60},
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address = {Cambridge},
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title = {Il Centro Nexa in merito alla seconda fase della consultazione AGCOM sul diritto d'autore},
author = {Juan Carlos De Martin and Marco Ricolfi and Carlo Blengino and Alessandro Cogo},
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Nexa_consultazione_398-11.pdf},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-09-13},
abstract = {Osservazioni del Centro Nexa for Internet & Society sullo schema di regolamento in materia di tutela del diritto d’autore sulle reti di comunicazione elettronica di cui all’allegato A) alla delibera n°398/11/cons del 6 luglio 2011.},
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Osservazioni del Centro Nexa for Internet & Society sullo schema di regolamento in materia di tutela del diritto d’autore sulle reti di comunicazione elettronica di cui all’allegato A) alla delibera n°398/11/cons del 6 luglio 2011.
@misc{nokey,
title = {Osservazioni del Centro Nexa in merito alla consultazione AGCOM sul diritto d'autore},
author = {Juan Carlos De Martin and Marco Ricolfi and Carlo Blengino and Alessandro Cogo },
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Nexa-Consultazione-AGCOM-definitivo-marzo2011.pdf},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-03-04},
abstract = {Osservazioni del Centro Nexa for Internet & Società sulle proposte di intervento di cui all’allegato b) alla delibera n°668/10/cons del 17 dicembre 2010 “lineamenti di provvedimento concernente l’esercizio delle competenze dell’autorità nell’attività di tutela del diritto d’autore sulle reti di comunicazione elettronica”.},
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Osservazioni del Centro Nexa for Internet & Società sulle proposte di intervento di cui all’allegato b) alla delibera n°668/10/cons del 17 dicembre 2010 “lineamenti di provvedimento concernente l’esercizio delle competenze dell’autorità nell’attività di tutela del diritto d’autore sulle reti di comunicazione elettronica”.
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title = {Making Copyright Fit For the Digital Agenda},
author = {Marco Ricolfi},
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Making-Copyright-Fit-for-the-Digital-Agenda-1.pdf},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-02-24},
urldate = {2011-01-01},
journal = {Il Diritto d'Autore},
volume = {LXXXII},
pages = {359–372},
abstract = {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},
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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
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title = {Survey of Private Copyright Documentation Systems and Practices},
author = {Marco Ricolfi and Federico Morando and Camilo Rubiano and Shirley Hsu and Marisella Ouma and Juan Carlos De Martin},
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/survey_private_crdocystems-1.pdf},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
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abstract = {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.},
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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.
@workingpaper{nokey,
title = {Nexa 'position paper' su file sharing e licenze collettive estese},
author = {Marco Ciurcina and Juan Carlos De Martin and Thomas Margoni and Federico Morando and Marco Ricolfi},
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NEXACenter-ExtendedCollectiveLicenses-EnglishVersion-June2009.pdf},
year = {2009},
date = {2009-03-15},
abstract = {È ora che il dibattito sul file sharing si liberi dal veleno dello sterile scontro sulla cosiddetta pirateria per approfondire, con spirito inclusivo, soluzioni che permettano di conciliare la remunerazione dei detentori dei diritti con un ampio accesso alla cultura da parte di tutti. Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino pubblica "Creatività remunerata, conoscenza liberata: file sharing e licenze collettive estese", un position paper sulle licenze collettive estese, strumento -già ampiamente utilizzato in altre parti d'Europa- che ha il potenziale di trasformare file sharing, da problema, in opportunità di crescita sociale ed economica per il nostro Paese.
Sempre su questo tema si segnala, oltre al libro di Philippe Aigrain, "Internet et Création" (2008, in francese) e relativo sito rivolto a tutti i paesi EU Creative Contribution (work in progress), anche il recente articolo di Volker Grassmuck, "The World Is Going Flat(-Rate)" (2009, in inglese), che, a partire dai risultati di un recente studio tedesco, offre una articolata analisi delle proposte fin qui avanzate a livello internazionale sul tema del "flat rate" culturale (il centro Nexa sta traducendo in italiano l'articolo di Grassmuck). Andando più indietro nel tempo, rimane essenziale il libro di William Fisher, "Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment", Stanford University Press, 2004.},
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È ora che il dibattito sul file sharing si liberi dal veleno dello sterile scontro sulla cosiddetta pirateria per approfondire, con spirito inclusivo, soluzioni che permettano di conciliare la remunerazione dei detentori dei diritti con un ampio accesso alla cultura da parte di tutti. Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino pubblica "Creatività remunerata, conoscenza liberata: file sharing e licenze collettive estese", un position paper sulle licenze collettive estese, strumento -già ampiamente utilizzato in altre parti d’Europa- che ha il potenziale di trasformare file sharing, da problema, in opportunità di crescita sociale ed economica per il nostro Paese.
Sempre su questo tema si segnala, oltre al libro di Philippe Aigrain, "Internet et Création" (2008, in francese) e relativo sito rivolto a tutti i paesi EU Creative Contribution (work in progress), anche il recente articolo di Volker Grassmuck, "The World Is Going Flat(-Rate)" (2009, in inglese), che, a partire dai risultati di un recente studio tedesco, offre una articolata analisi delle proposte fin qui avanzate a livello internazionale sul tema del "flat rate" culturale (il centro Nexa sta traducendo in italiano l’articolo di Grassmuck). Andando più indietro nel tempo, rimane essenziale il libro di William Fisher, "Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment", Stanford University Press, 2004.
@conference{nokey,
title = {Copyright Policy for digital libraries in the context of the i2010 strategy (a.k.a., the “Copyright 2.0” paper)},
author = {Marco Ricolfi },
year = {2008},
date = {2008-07-01},
urldate = {2008-07-01},
institution = {COMMUNIA Conference 2008, Louvaine-la-Neuve},
organization = {COMMUNIA Conference 2008, Louvaine-la-Neuve},
abstract = {The paper describes in §§ 1-2 the EU policy on digital libraries and the role played within it by the High Level Expert Group (HLG), with special reference to the findings in the Final Report by the Copyright Subgroup of the HLG. In §§ 3-6 it summarizes the analysis and recommendations by the Subgroup in four areas, digital preservation, web harvesting, orphan works and out-of-print works. It further discusses in § 8 four other crucial copyright issues which digital libraries have to face, which, while not addressed by the Report, might belong to a “Second Basket” of policy-making open questions. After examining in § 9 some assumptions of the EU policies in connection with libraries, archives and museums, the paper addesses in § 10 the question whether copyright as we know it still is an appropriate tool in the current digital context or should be displaced by another mechanism. Finally it analyzes the impact of the move towards a new regime (Copyright 2.0) on the costs and benefits of digital libraries.},
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The paper describes in §§ 1-2 the EU policy on digital libraries and the role played within it by the High Level Expert Group (HLG), with special reference to the findings in the Final Report by the Copyright Subgroup of the HLG. In §§ 3-6 it summarizes the analysis and recommendations by the Subgroup in four areas, digital preservation, web harvesting, orphan works and out-of-print works. It further discusses in § 8 four other crucial copyright issues which digital libraries have to face, which, while not addressed by the Report, might belong to a “Second Basket” of policy-making open questions. After examining in § 9 some assumptions of the EU policies in connection with libraries, archives and museums, the paper addesses in § 10 the question whether copyright as we know it still is an appropriate tool in the current digital context or should be displaced by another mechanism. Finally it analyzes the impact of the move towards a new regime (Copyright 2.0) on the costs and benefits of digital libraries.
