Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Charles R. Nesson

Introduction

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin

The Public Domain Manifesto

I.Introducing the Digital Public Domain

1. Communia and the European Public Domain Project: A Politics of the Public Domain

Giancarlo Frosio

II.Legal Framework

2. Consume and Share: Making Copyright Fit for the Digital Agenda

Marco Ricolfi

3. Evaluating Directive 2001/29/EC in the Light of the Digital Public Domain

Lucie Guibault

4. Building Digital Commons through Open Access Management of Copyright-related Rights

Giuseppe Mazziotti

III. Developments and Case Studies

5. Contractually-constructed Research Commons: A Critical Economic Appraisal

Enrico Bertacchini

6. Social Motivations and Incentives in Ex Situ Conservation of Microbial Genetic Resources

Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Per M. Stromberg and Unai Pascual

7. Open Knowledge: Promises and Challenges

Rufus Pollock and Jo Walsh

8. Science Commons: Building the Research Web

Kaitlin Thaney

9. The DRIVER Project: The Socio-economic Benefits of a European Scientific Commons

Karen Van Godtsenhoven

10. CC REL: The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

Hal Abelson, Ben Adida, Mike Linksvayer and Nathan Yergler

11. The Value of Registering Creative Works

Roland Alton-Scheidl, Joe Benso and Martin Springer

Select Bibliography of Resources Cited

A. Websites

B. Reports, Conference Papers and Working Papers

C. Books, Papers and Newspaper Articles