AUSTRIA. FRANCE. GERMANY. IRELAND. UK. CHARITIES. GOOGLE. Communia, Public Domain Manifesto. The Public Domain Manifesto printable and editable version Preamble "Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient—le mot n’est pas trop vaste—au genre humain.
Toutes les intelligences y ont droit. Communia, 2012, LoC Third Party Digitization. Messenger boy / The Library of Congress / No known copyright restrictions Last week the Communia Association submitted comments (PDF) to the United States Library of Congress’ Request for Information on the topic of Third Party Digitization Initiatives.
To give a little bit of context, the Library of Congress is looking for contractors to digitize some of their collections, primarily public domain content. In exchange for digitizers scanning materials at zero cost to the Library, the contractors “may market and resell, for a limited period, access to the digitized collection to cover the costs of digitization.” OJEU, 2003, PSI re-use directive. OJEU, 20121027, recommendation digitisation.