{"id":3281,"date":"2010-02-06T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T22:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T22:11:33","slug":"public-domain-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/06\/public-domain-manifesto.html","title":{"rendered":"Public Domain Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicdomainmanifesto.org\/\"><strong>Public Domain Manifesto<\/strong><\/a> is an effort to describe the strengths of public domain, and to encourage support.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the general principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Public Domain is the rule, copyright protection is the exception.<\/li>\n<li>Copyright protection should last only as long as necessary to achieve a reasonable compromise between protecting and rewarding the author for his intellectual labour and safeguarding the public interest in the dissemination of culture and knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>What is in the Public Domain must remain in the Public Domain.<\/li>\n<li>The lawful user of a digital copy of a Public Domain work should be free to (re-)use, copy and modify such work.<\/li>\n<li>Contracts or technical protection measures that restrict access to and re-use of Public Domain works must not be enforced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I recommend that you review the manifesto, and if you agree with it, show your support by signing it.<\/p>\n<p><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/node\/506\">Open Source Initiative <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Domain Manifesto is an effort to describe the strengths of public domain, and to encourage support. Some of the general principles: The Public Domain is the rule, copyright protection is the exception. Copyright protection should last only as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/06\/public-domain-manifesto.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2925,2935,2937,2943,2945],"tags":[5344,5156,4049,5157],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-government","category-history","category-libraries","category-licensing","tag-copyright","tag-manifesto","tag-public-domain","tag-public-domain-manifesto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-QV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}