On the 9th of January 2025, we celebrated the European Public in Brussels, Belgium. As part of this event, the program contained two tracks, including the European Track.
Program of the European Track
09:30 – 09:45 / Opening and Welcome – 15 minutes
09:45 – 10:30 / Keynote: Séverine Dusollier, Professeure des Universités, Membre Senior de l’Institut Universitaire de France, École de droit Science Po Paris (45 min.)
10:30-10:45 / Members Europeana Copyright Group (15 min.)
→ Launching the revised Europeana Public Domain Charter
11:00-11:15 / Leander Nielbock, Policy Officer, Communia.
→ Public Access to Public Sector Works and Public Speeches.
11:15-11:30 / Brigitte Vézina, Policy and Open Culture Director, Creative Commons
→ Overcoming Barriers to Access to Collections in the Digital Environment – A call for a new UNESCO Recommendation.
11:30-11:45 / Q&A
11:45-12:15 / Paul Keller, Co-Founder & Policy Director, Open Future Foundation, Sebastian Posth, Founder and CEO, Liccium
→ EU Repository of public domain and open licensed works
12:15-12:45 / Harrie Temmink, Head of Service “Intellectual Property in the Digital World”, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
→ EUIPO Activities in the context of the EUIPO Copyright Knowledge Centre.
12:45-13:00 / Q&A
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-14:20 / Merete Sanderhoff, Curator and senior advisor of digital museum practice, SMK, Jonathan Beck, My Mini Factory, Scan The World.
→ 3D digitisation released under CC0: What are the impacts?
14:20-14:40 / NivoPol, Vice President, Le Deuxième Texte Association
→ Building Showcases for Public Domain forgotten women writers
14:40-15:00 / Q&A
15:20-15:40 / Dafydd Tudur, Head of the Digital Services, National Library of Wales
→ Opening Access to Public Domain Collections: Challenges & Benefits
15:40-16:00 / Xavier Cailleau, Chargé des partenariats, Wikimédia France
→ The Culture Libre Label and open content state and issues in France.
WORKSHOPS
14:00-15:00 / Maarten Zeinstra
→ Update your Public Domain Calculator on Outofcopyright.eu During the workshop we will detail the changes in the Europeana Copyright Framework and ask if your jurisdiction has implemented additional changes that might affect the term of protection, in order to be able to update your jurisdiction decision tree by 2025.
15:20-16:20 / Francesca Farmer, Research Fellow at GLAM-E Lab based (RAMM)
→ Go Open with GLAM-E Lab. This workshop focuses on supporting open GLAM participation among smaller collections holders on how to identify and prepare digital collections for publication to Wikimedia Commons using the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. It walks participants through the free tools, policies and resources created by the GLAM-E Lab.
16:20-17:00 / Closing words by Camille Françoise and Bart Magnus
Selected recordings of the event are available below.