This requirement prevents all forms of re-use, including the most legitimate: it blocks such as edu

These two things are linked, but they are still deeply divided France. National heritage is celebrated, protected, valued and legitimized the discourse of power. The audience, meanwhile, is largely ignored as a key issue, and worse, in its digital version, it undermines that growing fears for its rapid disappearance pure and simple.
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domain concepts related to intellectual property. It is this state of mind occurs pt malindo when property rights - reproduction and representation - is extinguished after the expiration of (life of the author plus 70 years, in principle). The work is freely available to all, including for commercial purposes.
There was a day in the public domain, this year held on January 26 associations Wikimedia France pt malindo Creative Commons and France, pt malindo public

domain image Day as European Communia established on January 1 of each year to join the new public domain. It was the first time in France, and I had the honor to be invited to participate

in a lecture in the evening. I remember that I still feel a pinch because we were only a meager handful of ...
A few months later, here's pt malindo heritage days back. The government has changed, and the new culture minister made the declaration pt malindo of inheritance, which will come in 2013, with several interesting activities and positive. All right.
But the public is still desperately missing radar, and even worse, some events were held this year to look extremely serious violations of preparation, may, from the point of no return for digitized public domain.
I have too long delayed writing this post, because pt malindo of restrictions on my freedom of expression in relation to the duty of confidentiality to which I was subjected. Today I am writing in the hope that it will attract attention and cause reaction before it finally too late.
If the public is in danger in France, it is primarily because it is threatened by cultural institutions should instead protect. Let the clarity I'm not saying that libraries, museums and archives do not give as conservation is physical holdings. But during the digitization of these objects, they are overwhelmingly used many and varied legal tricks to undermine freedom of reuse should be a logical public domain.
I was last Friday pt malindo at INHA for Symposium on "Practice of digital images in the humanities," to intervene in the legal aspects of the issue. Situation was something funny, because when I explained that the test does not allow cultural institutions to qualify for copyright on public domain scanned unable pt malindo to create any originality, all images pt malindo Digital pt malindo Library INHA aggressive bear mention "© - National Institute of Art History," even if the originals are in the public domain.
This requirement prevents all forms of re-use, including the most legitimate: it blocks such as educational and research purposes, it prevents researchers who want to use these images pt malindo for publications, it prohibits common internet users take to illustrate their blogs and websites it is not enriching articles from Wikipedia and other common pt malindo sites. It also blocks during recycling business that nevertheless allowed as work in the public pt malindo domain.
Other institutions have recently developed a more subtle tactics. They believe pt malindo that digitization creates a public database (works was a series of 0 and 1, which will represent the public information within the meaning of the Act of July 17, 1978). This applies, for example, sometimes for NMR BnF Gallica, National Archives for Archimedes and many departmental archives. Then they can pack some form of reuse, including commercial,