Of roughly 7,000 global languages, only a handful are thriving digitally, with a mere 10 languages making up 82% of all internet content. This disparity is the core challenge for content moderation, write Sujata Mukherjee and Sasha Maria Mathew. Measurement is part of the solution, they say.
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@cmfrancoise.bsky.social
@meemoo-be.bsky.social
@openfuture.bsky.social
@creativecommons.bsky.social
@europeana.bsky.social
@wikimedia.brussels
@internetarchive.eu
and many more!
👉 Est ce que vous connaissez des assos de médiation de conflits qui exercent ds le monde associatif ?
Objectif: identifier plusieurs structures auxquelles ns pourrions faire appel pr apaiser des tensions, échanger autour de conflit, & des désaccords au sein d'une association.
RT appréciés ✨🙏
'It’s like a one day event that almost feels like a therapy session with enthusiastic people, amazing ideas, & projects that make you hopeful. I personally went back home with my ‘open advocate’ resilience re-loaded.'
#EPDD26
Ariadna Matas, from @europeana shared a love letter to the Public Domain and its defenders:
'If you ever feel demoralised about the public domain not being safeguarded enough, or laws being insufficient, I recommend that you join Public Domain Day.'
pro.europeana.eu/post/celebra...
#EPDD26
Paul Audi, philosophe : "La Boétie ne demande pas qui est le tyran mais pourquoi on renonce à notre liberté"
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
All the recordings are here: vimeo.com/showcase/epd...
All the photographs are here: www.flickr.com/photos/europ...
Check our website here: www.pdday.org/events/europ...
#EPPD26
It was an honor to work with such a great crew to put together European Public Domain Day. Looking forward to more awesomeness in the future from these folks. #EPDD26 #publicdomain
European #PublicDomainDay2026: Will future #PublicDomain Days have anything to celebrate?
Digital works risk vanishing into a 21st-century black hole before they can be preserved. Taps will run dry. Time to fix the plumbing!
🔗 KR21’s blog post: www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/p...
#EPDD26
Bob Stein presents “The Future has a Right to the Past”.
Bob Stein presents his tapestry of the Internet Archive’s 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.
Bob Stein show a detailed view of the Internet Archive’s 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.
Bob Stein presents his tapestry celebrating the lesser known works now in the Public Domain on the Internet Archive
Bob Stein presents the Tapestry project at European Public Domain Day in Brussels at the National Library and later today will give a workshop about how to use this technology which brings collections to life. #EPDD26 #publicdomain #tapestry
Internet Archive Europe banner next to a table with some stickers
An empty conference room filled with white chairs in preparation for the European Public Domain Day.
Getting ready for today’s event! Looking forward to meeting and speaking with incredible people. #EPDD26 #publicdomain
And that's a wrap!
The European Public Domain Day was, again, excellent!
Thank you everyone for being there, but of course, special thanks to the best crew ever 🥳
That's a pleasure to be working together!
Thanks @paulk.bsky.social for the picture 🙏#EPDD26
And nooooooow, what we all wanted! 🥳🥳🥳
Wiki Loves Public Domain 2025, presented by Maarten Zeinstra (Open Nederland) and Geert van Pamel (Wikimedia Belgium).
#EPDD26
Amazing quote from Bob Ross: 'We do not make mistakes, we just make happy accidents'
🙏that's the spirit, clearly 🌞🤯
#EPDD26
Be ready for the talk of ✨ Björn Wijers: Happy Accidents with the Public Domain videos 🥳
How people can Tinker with free software, tracker interface, modular plugins with Music Productions systems in the 90's, back in the days!
#EPDD26
Back from the break, ✨ Carlo de Gaetano (UVA) and Wytze Koppelman (Sound & Vision) introduce their project on remixing heritage to imagine future sea-level rise scenarios!
#EPDD26
✨Dieter Suls and Stijn Van den Bulck, of the ModeMuseum Antwerpen, with their project named 'Pattern-a-thons: a crowd sourcing event to create and share fashion designs'. 🎉👗👒👢
#EPDD26
Check more here: www.momu.be/en/magazine/...
And now, ✨ Annabelle Shaw and Louise McAward-White from the British Film Institute, around their project : The Graveyard Shift: public engagement, copyright, death dates and data 🙀
#EPDD26
✨ Bob Stein is now presenting the Tapestries project, linked to the Internet Archive
The tapestries free, open-source tool enabling anyone to assemble non-linear multimodal presentations made of webpages, pdfs, graphics, audio, videos and code running in emulators. #EPDD26
Thanks for your amazing work, making sure that we can have live-stream, recordings and photographs during the European Public Domain Day #EPDD26
This work helps us make the conference accessible for remote participants 🙏🙏🙏🫶🫶🫶
There is one person that must be thanked as without him, we would not go far, it is Sebastiaan Ter Burg.
Thank you Sebastiaan, for all the help, kindness and fun during the preparation.
Oh hello there! 👋 So honored to work with the wide ranging Public Domain community here in Europe and have a chance to present about the work of @internetarchive.eu #epdd26 #publicdomain
And now, the panel: 'The Public Domain, an academic Perspective' 🥳
moderated by Bartolomeo Meletti (CREATe)
🔸with Kristofer Erickson,
🔸Martin Kretschmer,
🔸Aline Iramina
🔸Séverine Dussolier
#EPDD26
Don't forget to check the CommonsDB project, a public domain and openly licenced works registery www.commonsdb.org
Paul Keller, policy Director of @openfuture.bsky.social Future and President of @communia.bsky.social, coming back to the past decades of working on the Public Domain Day, thanks to the implications of many people in and out of the room!
#EPDD26
Our dear ✨Leander Nielbock, @communia.bsky.social is on stage, talking about the Digital Omnibus and the questions around the Open Data Directive 🙀
#EPDD26
Woohoo ✨ Beatrice Murch, program manager at the Internet Archive Europe shares the launch of their initiative in Europe, especially with a place in Amsterdam for the community 🏠🇳🇱
👂Have you heard of the Tapestry project? A project where you can collect, zoom in & interact with collections.
#EPDD26
Ariadna Matas, Europeana Foundation is taking the floor about the Article 14 of the EU Digital Single Market Directive, on public domain works ✨👏
#EPDD26
Brigitte Vézina, Policy Director and Open Culture at Creative Commons is now on stage! #EPDD26
Did you know that they also celebrate their 25 yo this year as well? 🌞🤯
This year, we are delighted to welcome Bartolomeo Meletti 👏👏👏 #EPDD26
Bartolomeo is a senior lecturer in Law and Head of Knowledge Exchange of CREATe, which is the Center for Regulation of the Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow.
Welcome now to the ✨ Origins of Public Domain! ✨