7th Communia Workshop (1-2 Feb. 2010, Luxembourg)

Digital Policies: the Public Domain and Alternative Compensation Systems

Under the title "Digital Policies: the Public Domain and Alternative Compensation Systems", the 7th COMMUNIA Workshop will take place at the National Library of Luxembourg, in Luxembourg, on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd February 2010.

Presentations slides, abstracts, policy recommendations, as well as for some speakers transcripts or papers, are available from this website download section and also from each of the titles in the programme below. A programme document available here collects abstracts and initial position statements submitted by chairpersons and speakers before the workshop.

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For your guidance:

• Flights timetable,
• Trains timetable,
• TGV reservation and
• local public transport timetable.

Google Map with all relevant workshop locations.

Hotel Reservation via Luxembourg Tourist Office. Please fill out and fax this PDF. Feel free to call them for Credit Card details.

• Hotel Simonici is opposite the National Library (Location of the Workshop).
• Hotels Parc Belle-Vue and Parc Plaza are in the same complex, 5 mins walking distance from National Library.
  Pre-workshop meetings are also in that same complex.

PROGRAMME

Sunday 31st January (Pre-workshop events)

Location: Hotal Parc Plaza / Belle Vue conference center, 5 Avenue Marie-Thérèse - L-2132 LUXEMBOURG

10:00 Start:

• Communia recommendations to synchronise policy recommendations with presentations/facilitators
• COMMUNIA 2010 Conference Meeting
• Policy Ad-hoc Group Meeting

Light lunch provided, at no cost.

Afternoon:

• WG meetings (two additional rooms at same location, one reserved for WG6)

MONDAY 1st February

Location: National Library of Luxembourg, 37, blvd Roosevelt; L-2450 Luxembourg

09:00 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 Welcome: Monique Kieffer Director National Library and Maximilian Herberger Saarland University

• Keynote 1: the Public Domain, the Manifesto, his Charter and her Dilemma Jill Cousins Director Europeana
• Keynote 2: Does the public domain travel from analogue to digital? Lucie Guibault IvIR and Paul Keller Kennisland

11:00 morning session: What Policies for the Public Domain in the 21st Century? – Presentations and Panel
Chairperson: J.C. De Martin coordinator COMMUNIA Project
Panelists:

• Richard Owens WIPO project on Intellectual Property and the Public Domain WIPO, Director of the Copyright Law Division
• Javier Hernandez-Ros European Commission, DG INFSO, Head of Unit
• Francesco Fusaro Access to scientific information in the digital age - FP7 Open Access Pilot Project European Commission, DG Research

12:30 Lunch, Pre-registration required. Offered by national library, at AKA-Cité; 3, rue Genistre, 1st floor (above Cité Municipal Library)

14:00 afternoon sessions 1: "Digital Heritage"
Chairperson: Ulrike Elteste Creative Commons Luxembourg
Panelists:

• Lionel Maurel French policies regarding the reutilisation of the national cultural heritage: The BnF's new licensing scheme BnF
• Patrick Peiffer Which licensing scheme for Europeana? An overview of the discussions between the countries contributing to Europeana BnL
• Antoine Aubert Google
• Mathias Schindler Wikimedia DE

15:30 Coffeebreak

16:00 afternoon session 2: Economic and Social Value of the Public Domain – Presentations and Panel
Chairperson: Federico Morando economics working group lead - COMMUNIA project
Debate reporter/facilitator: Peter Troxler consultant and project manager - Waag Society
Panelists:

• Federica Rossi Intellectual Property (IP) Governance and Strategic Value Creation Univ. of Torino and Univ. of London
• Rufus Pollock Mead Fellow in Economics, University of Cambridge
• Mark Isherwood Economic and Social Impact of the Public Domain in the Information Society PD study project lead - Rightscom.com

18:15 - 19:30 Social Programme : Guided tour of the old city,english. (Museum visit is cancelled) Pre-registration is required. Start: 18h00, outside main entrance of National Library. Tour ends at 19h30 at the social dinner restaurant.

19:30 Social dinner (at own cost, set menu for 32 EUR, drinks excluded). Pre-registration is required. Restaurant « Am Tiirmchen » 32 rue. de l’Eau, L-1449 Luxembourg, Tel: +352.26 27 07 33

TUESDAY 2nd February

Location: National Library of Luxembourg, 37, blvd Roosevelt; L-2450 Luxembourg

09:00 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 - 13:00 Alternative Remuneration Systems
Facilitator: Philippe Aigrain Sopinspace

• Volker Grassmuck From Common Sense to Commons Sense - A Copyright Exception for Monetizing File-Sharing Culture Flatrate researcher
• Mark Cole What can we learn from the Private Copy ? Licence global or Flatrate in light of previous experiences University of Luxemburg
• Florian Philapitsch I Dream of Dodos - Why Collecting Societies Should Play a Major Role in "Alternative Compensation Systems" and Why They Should Be Saved From ExtinctionAustrian Communications Authority
• Rainer Kuhlen A paradigm shift for remuneration in science HU Berlin, ENCES
• John Buckman European Collecting Societies need to be non-exclusive, like in the USAMagnatune

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch (at own cost, own choice of location)

14:30 – 16:00 Wrap-up and conclusions for policy recommendations

Interested? Workshop REGISTRATION is free (as in beer).