On 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 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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