The amazing artistic uses that people are able to make of material only once it enters the public domain are an indication that copyright can act as an obstacle to wider creativity, rather than something that automatically promotes it. To address these issues, we hope the European Court of Justice will soon have the opportunity to clarify that the Public Domain must not be restricted, a fortiori by rules outside of copyright and related rights, which compromise the European legislator’s clear intent to uphold the Public Domain. I argue that this software development and open sourcimg is not what working for the public means or, at the least, I am very surprised to see that no one in the tech world can even consider that Italy might actually be inspiring, or at the very least find a ground for their point of view