Certifying public domain works

3 rd COMMUNIA Workshop Marking the Public Domain: Relinquishment and Certification Amsterdam 2008 10 20 Certifying public domain works Mike Linksvayer Creative Commons Image by spi516 · Licensed under CC BY-SA · http://flickr.com/photos/spi/2414865111/

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Public domain?
Facts about a work
Facts about copyright law (e.g., public domain calculators)
Assessment of copyright status of a work

Public domain certification?
Who is providing each of these?
What is their reputation?

Public domain Web?
How does one discover all of previously mentioned?
How does a computer?

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Commons of PD info and CC
Interoperability
Common identifiers (e.g., a CC PD Assertion deed)
Common vocabularies
Tool adoption (e.g., search)
Growth of marking the PD via CC’s user community, outreach, development of institutional standards

Running code

Beyond copyright
Issues of provenance are of particular relevance to copyright licensing on the web, but the decentralized web presents trust of agents and data as a general problem. Protocols for public domain assertion could evolve to address these problems beyond the scope of copyright

Beyond copyright
In line with CC relationship to the SemWeb and the shared interest of many in the CC community in addressing issues of commerce, privacy, trust, and transparency in a decentralized architecture (captured to some extent in ideas like “VRM”)

Creative Commons Technology Summit 2008 06 18 Digital Copyright Registry Landscape Mike Linksvayer Creative Commons Image by *saipal · Licensed under CC BY · http://flickr.com/photos/saipal/257641202/ http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_Technology_Summit_2008-06-18

Second CC Tech Summit
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_Technology_Summit_2008-12-12
Date: Friday, December 12, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Cambridge, MA, US

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Author: Mike Linksvayer
Link: http://creativecommons.org
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Certifying public domain works

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