Center for the Public Domain explained

The Center for the Public Domain was a charitable foundation created in 1999 by Bob Young as the Red Hat Center for Open Source.^{[1] [2]} Until 2002, it provided free online legal resources, sponsored public domain spaces on the Internet, and campaigned for copyright reforms.^{[3] [4] [5]}

The Center dissolved itself in March 2002, after distributing about $12 million in grants, primarily to four organizations: ibiblio, Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, and the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at the Duke University School of Law.^[6]

External links

• Web site: Center for the Public Domain . https://web.archive.org/web/20051224134059/http://www.centerpd.org/ . 2005-12-24 . dead . 2023-03-16.
• Web site: Center for the Public Domain . https://web.archive.org/web/20060103081051/http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org:80/ . 2006-01-03 . dead . 2023-03-16.

Notes and References

1. Book: Futurenet: The Past, Present, and Future of the Internet as Told by Its Creators and Visionaries . Sally Richards . John Wiley and Sons. 2002 . 99–100, 215 . 978-0471433248.
2. Book: Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own. . . 2009 . 102 . 978-1595583963.
3. Book: Resisting Intellectual Property . Debora Jean Halbert . Psychology Press . 2005 . 0-415-70127-9 . 38, 176 .
4. Book: Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright . . . University of Chicago Press . 2011 . 52 . 978-0226032283 . registration.
5. Book: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy . Robin Mansell . Robin Mansell . Marc Raboy . John Wiley & Sons . 2011 . 9781405198714 . registration . 156 . The MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as the smaller Markle Foundation, the Center for the Public Domain, and the William Penn Foundation, also support media reform. .
6. News: Public Domain Center Closing . Christina Dyrness . Raleigh, NC . The News and Observer . March 16, 2002 . D6 . The Center for the Public Domain, founded in 1999 as the Red Hat Center for Open Source when the Linux company's stock was still on the rise, has called it quits with an e-mail message to friends of the center stating: "Our job here is done.".