The Digital Public Domain

Edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
and Juan Carlos de Martin

The Digital Public Domain

Foundations for an Open Culture

THE DIGITAL PUBLIC DOMAIN

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay is a researcher at the CNRS Institute for Communication Sciences and associated researcher at CERSA (CNRS University Paris 2) where she is Creative Commons France legal lead. In 2011 she co-founded Communia international association on the digital public domain, which she currently chairs. She works on comparative public policies for open access and on transformation of regulation introduced by distributed architectures.

Juan Carlos De Martin is a Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and co-director of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at the Turin Polytechnic (Politecnico di Torino), Italy, which he co-founded in 2006. He is a Professor of Computer Engineering, with research interests focusing on digital media processing and transmission. De Martin also serves as a member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani and of the Biennale Democrazia.

The Digital Public Domain:
Foundations for an Open Culture

Edited by

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
and Juan Carlos De Martin

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