Festival du Domaine Public : célébrons la culture qui s’offre à nous ! | OKF France

[From Google's English] "Edvard Munch, Aristide Maillol, Jean Giraudoux, Glenn Miller and many others have the joy and pleasure to invite you to the first festival in the public domain to be held in Paris from 16 to 31 January. Why are all these famous authors? Because their works enter the public domain on January 1, 2015. After a long period covered by copyright, they finally offer to us fully. It is customary to say that a work enters the public domain as it would fall into the limbo of oblivion ... But it would not counting the valuable contribution of new technologies. If a public domain work is scanned, far from being forgotten, it acquires a new life: everyone can rediscover, distribute or modify the soil and make a new creation. More to ask permission or to pay money. She joins and forever our common cultural heritage. But to appropriate this culture now potentially available to all, what better than a real festival? To learn, train, cultivate, to scan and create together ... To address the public domain in all its forms and from all angles. Concerts, screenings, workshops, conferences, museums, libraries, hackerspaces, high schools ... 25 events, 20 venues, 30 organizations involved 100 participants. For two weeks in Paris and its region, a rich and varied free entrance festival is for everyone ..."