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Public Domain

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Main idea

Providing clarity on public domain across jurisdictions by organizing global cooperation.

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  • Enlightenment
  • Cooperation
  • Infrastructure

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Enlightenment and involvement

  • Encourage reuse of the public domain materials.
  • Reach not only to GLAM but also to authors, collecting societies and publishers.
  • Involve academic community in research and maintenance/development of open access databases.
  • Guidelines for libraries and other GLAM stakeholders on benefits of PD/CC for open collections.

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Cooperation

  • Roadmap and guide for public domain partnerships and action plan for local chapters for jurisdiction-based partnerships.
  • Annual reports on what is passing to the public domain this year.
  • Competition between different countries and jurisdictions.

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Agreement of CCHQ & Wikimedia & IFLA

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Infrastructure

  • Providing clarity by assembling PD-registries.
  • The goal of registration and storage of all types of works to ensure eventual transfer of everything into public domain.
  • Open-source software to be made available to facilitate across-the-board partnerships and jurisdiction-based registries integrated with repositories.