-------- Messaggio Originale -------- Oggetto: [Communia] Europeana launches its Public Domain Charter Data: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:13:58 -0600 Da: bernardo parrella berny@cybermesa.com A: communia@lists.communia-project.eu

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 digitisation of Public Domain content does not create new rights in it.

The document highlights the Public Domain as a "shared resource that underpins contemporary societies" and it "provides a historically developed balance to the rights of creators protected by copyright."

This initiative strengthens the recently-launched Public Domain Manifesto goal to protect today's cultural landscape particularly relevant to education, cultural heritage and scientific research -- thus ensuring that it can continue to function in a meaningful way.

The Public Domain Charter is currently available as a pdf download in English, French, German, Spanish, and Polish.

More info: http://communia-project.eu/node/406 http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/publications