This week, we released a new report detailing unfair practices in the licensing of digital resources to libraries (as a PDF file). This report describes contractual practices identified by licensing managers from public and academic libraries across Europe during a meeting organised by COMMUNIA under the Chatham House Rule. The report also contains clauses from […]
In our capacity as accredited observers of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), we are attending the 46th session of the Committee, which is currently taking place in Geneva (April 7-11, 2025). This morning, we made the following statement on Limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives/Limitations and exceptions for educational and research […]
In our capacity as accredited observers of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), we are attending the 46th session of the Committee, which is currently taking place in Geneva (April 7-11, 2025). The following statement contains COMMUNIA’s position regarding the current draft treaty on the protection of Broadcasting Organizations (Agenda Item […]
On March 11 2025, the Chairs and the Vice-Chairs of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice presented the third draft of the Code (download as a PDF file). Similarly to previous drafting rounds, the release of the new version was followed by a series of working group meetings with the stakeholders that take part […]
On December 19 2024, the European AI Office published a second draft (download as a PDF file) of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice. This is the second of a series of drafting rounds planned until April 2025. An analysis of the first draft is also available on our blog. Following the release of […]
A few weeks ago, the Spanish Ministry of Culture released a legislative proposal aimed at introducing extended collective licensing (ECL) for the development of general-purpose AI models. The first of its kind, the “Draft Royal Decree to regulate the granting of extended collective licenses for the massive exploitation of works and other subject matter protected […]
Two weeks ago, the European AI Office published the first draft of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice. The first in a series of four drafting rounds planned until April 2025, this “high-level” draft includes not only principles, a structure of commitments (a descending hierarchy of measures, sub-measures and key performance indicators) and high-level […]
The European AI Office’s public consultation Future-Proof AI Act: Trustworthy General-Purpose AI wraps up tomorrow. This multi-stakeholder consultation is aimed at informing the drafting process of the first Code of Practice, which will detail the AI Act rules for providers of general-purpose AI models and general-purpose AI models with systemic risks. Earlier this month COMMUNIA […]
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the DSM Directive. To celebrate the occasion, we are releasing a supplement to our series of blog posts on trends in national copyright policy following the DSM implementation. The Post-DSM Copyright Report series analyses the national transpositions of all Member States that have finalised their national […]
This is the final blog post in our series on trends in national copyright policy following the DSM implementation. With the national processes finalised in all but one Member State, we have analysed the transpositions to understand the impact of our proposals, identify areas of convergence and divergence, and assess how those affect the position […]
