Aims

The Open Knowledge Foundation‘s Working Group on the Public Domain has two main aims:

1. Research and analysis work to determine what is in the public domain in different jurisdictions
2. Build an open registry of public domain material
   • Build database of metadata on works (e.g. bibliographic metadata, …)
   • Make this available as a web service (http://publicdomainworks.net/)

Members

Current members include:

• Christina Angelopoulos, Institute for Information Law (IViR) (Netherlands)
• Renata Avila, Creative Commons (Guatemala)
• Alberto Cerda, Derechos Digitales (Chile)
• Tim Cowlishaw, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Ronan Deazley, University of Glasgow (UK)
• Aaron Dunn, MusOpen (USA)
• Severine Dusollier, University of Namur (Belgium)
• Primavera De Filippi, CERSA/CNRS (France)
• Lucie Gilbault, Institute for Information Law (IViR) (Netherlands)
• Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Gisle Hannemyr, University of Oslo (Norway)
• Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg (USA)
• Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Uppsala University (Sweden)
• Peter Hirtle, Cornell University Library (USA)
• Michael Holloway, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Franco Iacomella, Latin America Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) (Argentina), Free Knowledge Institute (Netherlands)
• Catherine Jasserand, Institute for Information Law (IViR) (Netherlands)
• Paul Keller, Kennisland (Netherlands)
• Mathias Klang, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
• Paula Le Dieu, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Justin Levy, Tulane University (USA)
• Nathan Lewis
• Thomas Margoni, University of Trento[http://www.unitn.it] (Italy)
• Maura Marx, Open Knowledge Commons (USA)
• Ziad Maraqa, Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) (Jordan)
• Hugh McGuire, LibriVox (USA)
• Greg Newby, Project Gutenberg (USA)
• Ben O’Steen
• Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• David Read, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Oya Yildirim Rieger, Cornell University Library (USA)
• Alek Tarkowski, Warsaw University (Poland)
• Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Tulane University (USA)
• John Weitzmann, European Academy of Law and Computing (EEAR) (Germany)
• Sara Wingate Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
• Maarten Zeinstra, Kennisland (Netherlands)