<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">After decades of measures that have drastically reduced the public domain, typically by extending the terms of protection, it is time to strongly reaffirm how much our societies and economies rely on a vibrant and ever expanding public domain.</font></b> The role of the public domain, already crucial in the past, is even more important today, as the Internet and digital technologies enable us to access, use and re-distribute culture with an ease and a power unforeseeable even just a generation ago.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
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