Last week, COMMUNIA submitted its response (PDF file) to the open consultation on the Digital Fairness Act. While many of the issues addressed in the proposed Act extend beyond our core mandate, we wish to highlight a critical yet overlooked consumer rights concern: the fairness of licensing practices for digital creative works, such as e-books […]
In August 2025, the Italian Competition Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) published a preliminary report of the findings of the IC57 – Scholastic Publishing Fact-Finding Investigation. Today, COMMUNIA made a submission in response to the preliminary report (available as a PDF file). COMMUNIA welcomes the the preliminary report, as it overlaps with […]
COMMUNIA has signed the Open Heritage Statement — a global call to advance equitable access to Public Domain heritage in the digital environment and to help inform international policy. As a founding member of the TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage), a global community effort steered by our member Creative Commons, COMMUNIA […]
On 24 September, COMMUNIA hosted the third Salon of 2025 on the right to e-lend. The event brought together experts to examine the legal obstacles standing in the way of digital lending and discuss policy solutions for empowering libraries in the digital environment. A video recording of the event is now available through Vimeo. […]
Yesterday, COMMUNIA made a submission to the call for evidence for an impact assessment on the European Research Area (ERA) Act. The European Commission is expected to propose an ERA Act over the course of the 2024-2029 mandate, to turn the “fifth freedom” for research, innovation, knowledge and education into reality and unlock European research. […]
Today, COMMUNIA releases Policy Paper #23 for a general scientific research exception (also available as a PDF file), advocating for a comprehensive overhaul of the copyright framework for research uses. The research exceptions in the EU copyright acquis are too limited in scope, not sufficiently harmonised, and display additional conceptual issues, preventing the realisation of […]
Libraries are essential gateways to knowledge and culture. Yet in today’s digital world, they face significant barriers. To shine a light on these challenges, and explore solutions, we invite you to join us on Wednesday 24 September, 15:00-16:00 CEST for an online event where we will examine the legal obstacles standing in the way of digital […]
Ahead of the summer break, COMMUNIA full members elected a new Administrative Council during the 2025 General Assembly. Paul Keller (Open Future) and Maja Bogataj Jančič (Intellectual Property Institute) were re-elected to their positions and are joined by Maria Drabczyk (Centrum Cyfrowe). Paul Keller — Co-founder and Policy Director of Open Future (Netherlands), will continue […]
In June 2025, the Danish government together with a number of opposition parties jointly proposed the establishment of a safeguard against the sharing of digital imitations by amending the Copyright Act by introducing two protections: 1) A general protection against realistic digitally generated imitations of personal characteristics; and (2) An imitation protection for performing artists. […]
Today, COMMUNIA is releasing Policy Paper #22 against new exclusive rights for AI-generated outputs (also available as a PDF file), in which we present the case against the introduction of a sui generis or related right for AI-generated outputs that fall short of the standards of copyright protection. Generative AI has seen rapid mainstream adoption. […]
