News and Research articles on Public domain

Volume 6, Issue 1

Public artworks and the freedom of panorama controversy: a case of Wikimedia influence

Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Pierre-Carl Langlais, Université Paris Sorbonne
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Feb 2017 DOI: 10.14763/2017.1.447

Artworks in the public space are not in the public domain: an apparent lightweight topic is polarising European copyright lobbyists.

KEYWORDS: Public domain, Public art, Freedom of panorama, Public space, Text-mining, Copyright law, Lobbying
Volume 2, Issue 3

Law of the cloud: on the supremacy of the user interface over copyright law

Primavera De Filippi, Research and Studies Center of Administrative Science (CERSA/CNRS), Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Jul 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.3.175

The provisions of copyright law can potentially be bypassed by cloud computing applications whose interface is designed to regulate the access, use and reuse of online content.

KEYWORDS: Copyright, User interface, Terms of service, License, Public domain, Enclosure, Private regulation, Cloud computing