Today the COMMUNIA International Association presents its sixth policy paper. The paper is a reaction to the European Commission’s proposal for a directive on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market. The COMMUNIA Association welcomes the European Commission’s efforts to […]
This post by Lucie Guibault was first published on the Kluwer Copyright Blog and is reproduced here with kind permission of the author. Last week, the European Parliament approved the draft Directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works. The approval of the Council of Ministers is expected to occur shortly. This is big news […]
This post by Lucie Guibault was first published on the Kluwer Copyright Blog and is reproduced here with kind permission of the author. The New Year’s festivities are just behind us and with these the celebrations around Public Domain Day 2012 that took place in different cities in and outside Europe (Warsaw, Zurich, Turin, Rome, […]
Information Sans Frontières, a newly formed alliance from the library world (Europeana, JISC, LIBER and EBLIDA) has just released a memorandum on the proposed orphan works directive addressed to the Council of the European Union. The memorandum, backed by some of the the most obvious beneficiaries of the proposed directive is nevertheless highly of the […]
Today the COMMUNIA International Association presents its first policy paper. The paper analyzes the European Commission’s proposed directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works (COM/2011/0289) in the light of its effects on the Public Domain. The paper contains suggestions for improving the directive to make it more suitable to the stated objective of increasing […]
Join us in Warsaw before the CC Global Summit for a kickoff workshop that will bring together stakeholders to begin a global project to encourage GLAM institutions to make their metadata and digital copies of public domain works freely and openly available for all to reuse without restriction. Thursday, September 15, 2011 from 10:00 AM […]
Melanie Dulong de Rosnay will be presenting Communia at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (http://infojustice.org/public-events/global-congress) at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC on August 26 during a session on Open Access and the Public Domain (http://infojustice.org/public-events/global-congress/abstracts/open-acce…)
After almost four years of activities, the COMMUNIA Project is closing down. But many members, willing to pursue its overall goals, decided to form of an International Non-Profit Association based in Brussels. The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society […]
16 June 2011 (from 21:00 onwards) Venue: THE MONK CAFÉ Rue Ste-Catherine, 42 (BRUSSELS) Programme: Open discussion about the public domain in the digital world, the future challenges Prospectives on the future activity of Communia Drinks and networking
Communia Association will be presented at the Open Knowledge Conference, on July 1st, 2011 at 18:30 by Melanie Dulong, Maarten Brinkerink and Peter Troxler. For more information check out http://okcon.org/2011/programme/communia-the-international-association-o…
