Invitation to the public domain month in 2018

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Logo Wikimedia Belgium	In May 2018, we organise with our partners a public domain month in which we pay extra attention to works that became public domain on 1 January 2018. In Belgium, new works enter the public domain seventy years after the death of their author. The Wikipedia community is organizing a public domain day about the annual expiration of copyright protection in various countries. It aims to shed a light on the impact of those restrictions on our access to cultural heritage. In Belgium, this public domain day will be extended to a public domain month, taking place in May 2018. The organizing partners are Constant vzw, the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), the Cinquantenaire Museum (KMKG), Muntpunt, Rosa vzw, Cinema Nova, Plus-tôt Te Laat and PACKED vzw. Among Belgian names, architect Victor Horta is the most famous artist whose works entered the public domain in 2018. Writer Felix Timmermans or painter Gustave Van de Woestyne are also among those names. During the month of May, together with a group of partners, we will therefore organize several initiatives to raise awareness among both heritage workers and the general public in order to create a larger basis for open cultural data. On May 26, the actual public domain day event will take place and focuses on raising awareness of the general public. The Muntpunt library will host the main lectures and workshops, and will also be the starting point of the Horta tours. For the occasion, the Royal Library of Belgium, Rosa vzw and Constant vzw will also organize pop-up exhibitions. Later in the evening, the Cinema Nova will finally show a special screening dedicated to the German film-maker Ernst Lubitsch. Program related to Wikimedia 19 May 2018 - Wikipedia writing session - about Gustave Van de Woestyne, Felix Timmermans, Jean Capart, etc. Lunch and support by experienced Wikipedia editors provided, bring your own laptop with you. Sign up at Facebook or via educkbr.be Location: Royal Library of Belgium, Kunstberg (close to Brussels central railway station), Brussels Time: 10:00-16:00 More information: https://www.kbr.be/en/events/public-domain-day-2018-edit-a-thon 26 May 2018 - Wikipedia writing workshop - about Victor Horta, Ernst Lubitsch, Ferdinand Zeca, Auguste Blom, Carl Hoffman. Support by experienced Wikipedia editors provided, bring your own laptop with you. Location: Muntpunt, Munt 6, Brussels Time: 10:00-13:00 More information: https://www.muntpunt.be/pdd2018/en 26 May 2018 - Lecture and panel conversation - An afternoon about the potential and practices of the Public Domain, why unlocking digital collections as open data and why is this important for society? Speakers: Sam Donvil - PACKED vzw, Saskia Scheltjens - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Sophie Vandepontseele - Royal Library of Belgium, Olaf Janssen - Royal Library of the Netherlands en Andrea Wallace - University of Exeter Location: Muntpunt, Munt 6, Brussels Time: 14:00-17.30 More information: https://www.muntpunt.be/pdd2018/en Full program Download the full program on the website of Constant vzw Program Public Domain Month on the website of PACKED vzw See also Photos of the edit-a-thon of 19 May 2018 Photos of the lecture and panel conversation of 26 May 2018
	Part of the text of this page is a translation from the website of PACKED vzw, available under the licence Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.