Registries and the Public Domain
Oct 2009
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How can a potential user determine if a work is actually in the public domain? What involves substantial detective work could become an easy task in the future, if some of the initiatives on certification and registration of works will come to fruition. A session at the 2008 Communia Workshop in Amsterdam discussed the need for tools that can be used to mark and tag works supposedly being in the public domain. After the session I took the opportunity to discuss the roles of registries with Mario Pena of Safe Creative and Martin Springer of osAlliance and Registered Commons. Now we are catching up with the developments that happened in the meantime.
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