…Open Definitioncompliant licenses, such as the Creative Commons licenses or the Creative Commons Zero mechanism. This applies in particular to metadata produced by cultural heritage institutions, in the limited cases…
January 2018 – (This policy paper is also available as a PDF file) COMMUNIA policy paper on the review of the PSI Directive In 2003 the Directive 2003/98/EC on the…
…Commons. Creative Commons licenses have been in use for many years and come with a rights description infrastructure (including machine-readable metadata) that is supported by major search engines. COMMUNIA therefore…
…documents, once again, far outweighs any considerations of state ownership. Public governmental documents are generally necessary to hold governments accountable and ensure transparency of public administration. Studies commissioned or conducted…
…to the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (Administrative Order 10946/2014). See Sections 3.1, 3.2 and 15.2 of Administrative Order 10946/2014. See Section 3.7 of Administrative Order 10946/2014: “Any use of images…
…maintain the damaging ‘licensing override’ and further limit the list of potential beneficiaries by requiring that they are ‘certified’. Adding insult to injury the compromise would also make compensation for…
…2003/98/EC on re-use of public sector information can be downloaded here. For further information about the paper please contact the COMMUNIA Association at communia DOT association AT gmail DOT com….
…proposal. Since the commission presented the proposal, a broad coalition of civil society, technology companies and academics has pointed out the problematic relationship between the commission’s proposal and fundamental rights…
…presidency compromise proposal 2011/0136 (COD) that proposes a number of changes to COM/2011/0289 as proposed by the Commission. This compromise proposal introduces language that would partially fix some of the…
…the Commission published alongside the Communication. In the light of the Commission’s earlier statements that it wants to create a digital single market, this proposal is a huge disappointment as…
