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Today, together with more than 30 civil society organisations from across Europe, we are publishing an open letter (also available as a PDF) to Members of the European Parliament on the Digital Omnibus proposal. We call on lawmakers to protect the use of open standard licences for public sector information and to preserve one of […]
As the European Union actively pursues digital sovereignty, a fundamental structural misalignment has emerged between its innovation objectives and its existing legal frameworks. Across Europe, academic research consortia are utilising public funding to build open-source, public-interest Large Language Models (LLMs). However, as our newest study commissioned by COMMUNIA and conducted by Centrum Cyfrowe and Open […]
Last week, rapporteurs Aura Salla and Marina Kaljurand published their draft report on the Digital Omnibus. The report contains an important and welcome proposal to strengthen the rules on exclusive arrangements for the digitisation of cultural heritage. At the same time, it leaves untouched one of the most problematic parts of the Commission proposal: the […]
The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) has adopted a draft opinion on the Digital Omnibus that contains some welcome attempts to preserve the core principles of Europe’s open government data framework. Whereas the Commission proposal risks dismantling the Open Data Directive’s “open by default” approach, JURI rightly recognises that open data remains essential. […]
Today, Centrum Cyfrowe is publishing Barriers to Research: Insights into the Patchwork of Research Exceptions in European Copyright Laws and Practical Perspectives from European Researchers, a report prepared in collaboration with the Future Law Lab at the Jagiellonian University (the PDF is available on Zenodo).1 The report examines whether the European copyright framework is keeping […]
The European Commission has launched a call for evidence on a possible legislative initiative to create a “better copyright environment for European creativity and innovation”. The call for evidence accompanies both the upcoming review of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive and the Commission’s exploration of targeted reforms addressing challenges linked to […]
On 1 June, COMMUNIA brought together policymakers, researchers, Public AI developers and cultural heritage professionals in Brussels for the event Copyright Liability and the Knowledge Ecosystem. The event explored a question that is becoming increasingly urgent for Europe’s knowledge institutions: how can public-interest actors exercise the rights granted to them by copyright exceptions when legal […]
Knowledge institutions – educational establishments, research organisations and cultural heritage institutions – occupy a central position in Europe’s research and innovation ecosystem. Yet their everyday operations are conducted under a regulatory climate characterised by norm complexity and fragmentation leading to considerable legal uncertainty. Exposure to contractual asymmetry and technological control measures further increase chilling effects […]
In our capacity as accredited observers of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), we are attending the 48th session of the Committee, which is currently taking place in Geneva (18-22 May, 2026). On Tuesday, we made the following statement on Limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives/ Limitations and exceptions for […]
In our capacity as accredited observers of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), we are attending the 48th session of the Committee, which is currently taking place in Geneva (18-22 May, 2026). Today, we made the following statement on the protection of broadcasting organizations (Agenda Item 4). Dear Delegates, I speak […]
