Projects
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OFCOM Public Service Broadcasting response
A response to OFCOM's paper A new approach to public service content in the digital age.
To find out more and take part, see the project home page
Public Domain Burn
Currently it is difficult to determine what works are in or out of the public domain. Furthermore because works entering the public domain are so old it is often hard to find copies of these works to preserve and distribute.
We want to build a database of public domain works, so that people, and especially creative types, know what they can freely use, copy and reuse. Register to contribute to the database, then trawl through your collections, car boot sales, library index cards and so on. Compete with others to add the most metadata and, if possible, media files, to the UK's first public domain register. Burn the public domain!
To find out more see the project home page
Creative Archive
The Creative Archive is a BBC project to make its back archive of material available online. The plan emphasizes an open and accessible archive both technologically and legally.
Free Culture UK has taken over the activities of Friends of the Creative Domain and is campaigning to ensure that:
- The Creative Archive goes ahead
- The Creative Archive is as open and free as possible so that citizens both in the UK and around the world can use and reuse the archive to the greatest extent possible
To find out more see the project home page
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work. We work with Creative Commons UK to promote the legal, social and political benefits of their copyright licenses. Our local groups run remix projects, organise our own Creative Commons themed events and encourage vibrant spaces for free culture in our local communities.
To find out more see the project home page
Recording Copyright Extension
Copyright terms have been continually extended since they were passed into English law by the Statute of Queen Anne. The latest example of this is the attempt by the major music labels to extend copyright retrospectively in recordings. As these monopoly rights have grown, so the public domain has shrunk, greatly reducing our access to creative works, condemning vast quantities of our culture to obscurity and disappearance, and limiting the opportunities for future creators to build upon the works of the past. This project works to prevent this latest attempt to take from the public domain by ratcheting up the term of monopoly rights.
To find out more see the project home page
Remix Events
See the RemixProject page.
Free Culture For Students (FC4S)
This is a project to encourage Free Culture in UK universities.
To find out more see FC4S