Marco Marandola died of a heart attack last week at the age of 36. From the announcement by Paola Gargiulo:
With much regret I have to inform you that Marco Marandola, an Italian copyright expert and electronic licencing consultant suddenly passed away last week....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.
(PS: I can add a personal note. Marco offered to translate my newsletter into Spanish, and finished the July 2005 issue before other obligations made it impossible for him to continue. I am profoundly saddened to lose such a committed friend and colleague at such a young age.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/16/2005 04:33:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
