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COMMUNIA
The European Thematic Network on the Public Domain in the Digital Age
Project summary
The COMMUNIA Thematic Network wants to place itself as the European point of reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues to the public domain in the digital environment - as well as related topics including, but not limited, alternative forms of licensing for creative material; open access to scientific publications and research results; management of works whose authors are unknown (i.e. orphan works). The network will cover the whole geographical territory of the European Union as well as neighbouring and accessing countries; it will also build strategic relationships with third countries such as the United States, Brazil, etc, where similar policy discussion on the above topics ongoing.
The COMMUNIA project will base its 3-years long activity on a tight schedule of thematic workshops and conference (respectively, 3 and 1 per year) with the goal to maintain a strong link between all the participants and use face-to-face meetings as a source of material for the analytical and practical work of the project, including the production of a book; an academic journal; a "best practices" guide for European research and reference centres on the topics covered by COMMUNIA; a final strategic report containing policy guidelines that will help all the stakeholders - public and private, from the local to the European level - tacking the issues that the existence of a digital public domain have raised and will undoubtedly continue to raise.
Funding
1,000,000 €
Project start - end date (duration)
01/09/2007 - 31/08/2010 (36 months)
Contact:
Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino
Italy
Tel.: +39 011 090 7065
Fax: +39 011 090 7099
Email: demartin@polito.it
Website:
http://www.communia-project.eu
Participants
| POLITECNICO DI TORINO | Co-ordinator | ITALY |