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Today, COMMUNIA is releasing Policy Paper #20 on the right to use Public Domain heritage (also available as a PDF file), in which we address the restrictions imposed by a number of Member States on the use of reproductions of Public Domain works. The cultural heritage laws of Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Slovenia […]
This article was first published on Kluwer Copyright Blog on June 7, 2024. Today marks the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. It is hard to remember how divisive and controversial the Directive was during its creation. The Directive’s most controversial provision – Article […]
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 […]
On April 16th 2024, 40 organisations signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information with the aim of preserving academic independence. The declaration calls on research institutions to unite around shared principles for open research information and a commitment to developing open research data infrastructure. Most of the conversation about Open Science in academic publishing […]
Today, COMMUNIA is releasing Policy Paper #19 on e-lending (also available as a PDF file), in which we address the shortcomings of the current European legal framework, and present our recommendations for an EU-wide right to e-lend. Libraries play a long-standing part in connecting European citizens to, and enabling their use of, information resources.The services […]
On Tuesday, June 18th, 15:00-16:00 CEST, we invite you to an online salon on the alarming development of the hollowing of the Public Domain through cultural heritage laws with a focus on Italy. Under the Italian cultural heritage code, many uses of cultural heritage held in Italian collections are contingent on authorisation and the payment […]
The Italian Ministry of Culture has taken legal proceedings in Italy against a number of commercial uses of Public Domain works held in Italian collections. Defendants included GQ Italia (for using Michelangelo’s David on a magazine cover), Jean Paul Gaultier (for using Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus in a clothing collection) and, of particular interest […]
Today, we are launching our brand new monthly newsletter. We are aiming for a clear and easily digestible overview of our work as well as recent developments in our field of interest for policymakers, civil society partners and anyone with an interest in the Public Domain. For now, we intend to release a newsletter on […]
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 […]
Today, we are publishing our 2022-2023 annual report that covers COMMUNIA’s activities between July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. This corresponds to the first reporting period for our structural grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. During this roll-out stage, we have restructured the organisation in a way to […]
