Digital commons
| Digital commons (DA) |
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| purpose | Network policy , promotion and protection of works in the public domain |
| Chair: | Bruno Jehle (President) |
| Establishment date: | January 25, 2006 |
| Seat : | Aarau, Switzerland |
| Website: | allmend.ch |
The Digitale Allmend is a Swiss association founded in 2006 with headquarters in Aarau , which is committed to ensuring public access to digital goods and their further development.
The name “digital commons” refers to the digital commons of knowledge . According to the Tages-Anzeiger, the digital commons is shaping the network policy debates in Switzerland with events and is the point of contact for media professionals in matters of network policy.
The digital commons is part of the digital society in Switzerland.
Focus
The Digital Allmend promotes the production and distribution of free works and takes care of the protection of public domain Cultural Property ( public domain ) against unauthorized appropriation for the purposes of copyright and other intellectual property rights (Copy fraud) . It tries to sensitize the public to problems and contemporary solutions in the field of intellectual property in the digital age.
activities
The association organizes courses and events, among others with the concept office of the Rote Fabrik in Zurich or with speakers such as Cory Doctorow .
At the Federal Institute for Intellectual Property (IGE), Digitale Allmend takes part in the annual copyright talks and brings in the interests of the authors of free works. In cooperation with the Digital Allmend association, the IPI has published a compilation of frequently asked questions and answers about the public domain.
The association leads the Creative Commons in Switzerland and is responsible for adapting the CC licenses to Swiss law with a team of three legal experts. As representatives of CC Switzerland, members appear regularly as speakers at conferences on copyright and Creative Commons.
The association repeatedly expresses itself in the media or in discussions on the subject of network politics in Switzerland.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digitale Allmend: About us , last accessed on June 5, 2015
- ↑ Report “Digitale Allmend”: The association is founded on communica.ch (Swiss platform for the information society).
- ↑ Bruderzwist at Wikipedia, Tages-Anzeiger from June 8, 2015 , accessed June 9, 2015
- ^ Rote Fabrik / Konzept, Zurich, Switzerland: Rote Fabrik - Digitale Allmend . Archived from the original on May 2, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Copyrights versus human rights: Cory Doctorow in Zurich .
- ↑ Federal Institute for Intellectual Property (IGE): Questions and answers on the public domain , last accessed on June 7, 2015
- ↑ Home - Creative Commons .
- ^ Conference infoclio.ch 2012: Access and usage rights for historical sources on the web - infoclio.ch .
- ↑ Event in 2014 on digital sustainability at the University of Zurich ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Presentation from 2015 on Creative Commons Open Educational Resources at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.20minuten.ch, 20 minutes, 20 minutes, www.20min.ch: Is Switzerland threatened by the two- tier Internet? .
- ↑ Kassensturz to the AGUR12 report - Ueli Schmezer on the wrong track - digital society .
- ↑ Fabian Fellmann: Snooping in the fight against pirate copiers - NZZ . 23rd November 2013.
