Tag Archive for 'creative commons'

Public Domain Day

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Roberto Galoppini
on January 19, 2011
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public domain day manifestoOn the 1st of January 2011 has been celebrated the Public Domain Day, an initiative aimed at celebrating the wealth of knowledge, information and beauty that becomes freely available to humankind this day.

Rome and other Italian cities will host events next Saturday.

Take a moment to read the Public Domain Manifesto and sign it if you wish, Creative Commons and other organizations are already supporting it.

Creative Commons Italia: Coping with European Copyright Collecting Societes

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Roberto Galoppini
on January 10, 2009
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Creative Commons Italia and SIAE - an Italian private organization that acts as the Italian collecting society for authors and publishers - on the 23th of December created a legal working group comprising members of both organizations.

Deborah De Angelis (Creative Commons Italia, lawyer) will take part to all meetings along with another CC member and SIAE’s representatives. Meetings will be held every second week, the took place yesterday in Rome.

Italian authors adhering to SIAE to protect their works and interested in use CC licenses are recommended to follow the future progress via Creative Commons Italia blog (Creative Commons Italia is a Nexa’s project).

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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.