Marco Marandola - sad news

[Liblicense-L Listowner <liblicen@pantheon.yale.edu>]

For those who knew Mr. Marandola and his work, this is a very sad 
announcement.  Ann Okerson
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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:56:39 +0100
From: Paola Gargiulo <paola.gargiulo@caspur.it>
To: Ann Okerson <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>
Subject: Marco Marandola sad news.

Hi Ann,

with much regret I have to inform you that Marco Marandola, an Italian 
copyright expert and electronic licencing consultant suddenly passed away 
last week.  Marco was only 36 years old.

He was a consultant for many international organizations of libraries and 
museums, including IFLA, EBLIDA, and ICOM. For more than ten years he was 
a strong advocate of the special position of libraries in copyright 
legislation and lobbied on copyright issues within the European 
Parliament, the European Commission and the World Intellectual Property 
Organization. Recently he became quite involved in the Open Access 
Movement, especially in Spain where he moved to live.

He was well known not only in the Italian library community but also 
abroad. He was very much appreciated for his competence, generosity and 
gentleness. Marco will be greatly missed by all the people who had the 
chance to know him or to work with him.

He was a subscriber of Liblicence mailing list and posted several messages 
now and then. I do not know if it is the case to post this message, I 
definitively wanted you as moderator of the list to know about it Kind 
regards, Paola

Paola Gargiulo
Settore Automazione Biblioteche
C.A.S.P.U.R
Via dei Tizii, 6b
00185 Roma - ITALY
Tel. ++39-06-44486-605
Fax ++39-06-4957083
p.gargiulo@caspur.it