Richard Owen, the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs”, claimed that he could identify an animal, even an extinct one, from inspecting a single bone.
"On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]"
#EU#Italy#PD#PublicDomain#CulturalHeritage: "Third, the Italian legal system fails to safeguard the human and fundamental rights of cultural participation and artistic freedom. By establishing a disproportionate, unnecessary, and hardly accountable mechanism of centralised control over the use of public domain cultural heritage, Italy fails to take a holistic account of all relevant rights and interests at stake, ignoring the rights to access, use, enjoy, and participate in cultural heritage.
The Italian case is not expected to be peculiar nor isolated in the EU. Several Member States feature specific rules on cultural heritage in their national legal system and their interplay with the transpositions of Article 14 CDSM Directive remains, to date, unclear (see, among others, Markellou).
Clear-cut regulatory clarifications and balanced and systematic legal interpretations are utterly needed to address and prevent all potential legal inconsistencies in the interplay between copyright and cultural heritage. This would be significantly more effective if performed at the EU level through legal reform (not excluding interventions on competence rules), specific clarifications by the EU legislator, or autonomous interpretation by the Court of Justice of the EU."
Italian courts ignore Art.14 of the #DSM Directive intended to safeguard the #PublicDomain and use cultural heritage laws to engineer new pseudo #copyright. Today we are releasing an independent expert opinion commissioned to Giulia Dore & Giulia Priora on this matter.
#IP#Copyright#PublicDomain: "2024 has been off to a busy start with the long-anticipated arrival of Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie in the public domain. Creators have released new games and stories, including a comic that picks up where Steamboat Willie ends. Comedian John Oliver has been showcasing a “Steamboat Mickey” mascot. CBS Sunday Morning even aired a Mickey-inspired celebration of the public domain featuring an interview with CSPD Director Jennifer Jenkins.
This is just the beginning of Mickey’s new life in the public domain. Next year, over a dozen Mickey Mouse cartoons from 1929 will join Steamboat Willie in the public domain. These cartoons continue Disney’s innovative experiments with synchronized sound and include The Karnival Kid, the first film in which Mickey speaks intelligible words. His first words? “Hot dogs! Hot dogs!”
Like other Disney works, The Karnival Kid builds upon prior public domain material. To attract an audience for Minnie Mouse’s “shimmy dancer” performance, the Karnival barker riffs on a 19th Century tune known as “the snake charmer song.” This melody has also been featured in numerous other Disney cartoons and may be familiar to readers from the scores of additional reuses in works ranging from The Simpsons to Ke$ha’s Take It Off." https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/newsletter/April2024/
Gesucht: Teilnehmende & Interessierte an der #Jahrestagung vom Deutschen Museumsbund! 🔍
Wir wollen hier live berichten und uns austauschen. Wer ist dabei? Wo ist die Museumsbubble?
➡️ #DMB24
#PhysicsFactlet: The "Ashcroft/Mermin Project"
I will try to (likely very slowly) go through the classic textbook "Solid State Physics" by Ashcroft and Mermin and make one or more animation/visualization per chapter.
This will (hopefully) help people digest the topic and/or be useful to lecturers who are teaching about it. As with all my animations, feel free to use them.
The idea is that the animations are a companion to the book, so I will give only very brief explanations here.
Released into the #PublicDomain and uploaded to #WikimediaCommons together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drude_Model.gif
Released into the #PublicDomain and uploaded to #WikimediaCommons together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fermi_Gas.gif
Released into the #PublicDomain and uploaded to #WikimediaCommons, together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bravais_Lattices.gif
Project Gutenberg is the world’s first digital library. For over 50 years, it has been steadfast in its commitment to provide free, unfettered access to digitized literature for everyone. Now, they are using AI text-to-speech capabilities from Microsoft to accelerate the progress of creating an extensive audiobook library.
A new podcast about audiobooks with our CEO @gbnewby. Pivotal with Hayete Gallot. Produced by Larj Media.
Since the #PublicDomain has been getting new content for the last few years (e.g. 1928 and older) this provides fertile ground for things like the
Public Song Project:
It is perhaps important to note that the statue, created in 1504, was on outdoor exhibit in a public square in Florence until 1873, and a replica is still visible there.
It remains unavailable on Amazon as well as the Finnish and Polish shops where it was previously on sale. Funnily, it's still available in at least one Italian online shop.