COMMUNIA Salon: Time to fix copyright

The EU is reopening copyright. Can it deliver the changes that we need?

Join us on Wednesday, 7 October, at 15:00 CEST for a special online salon on the European Commission’s new copyright initiative. We will offer our first take on the recently opened public consultation, examine what is on the table and make the case for what’s missing.

Following the call for evidence before the summer break, the consultation covers four areas: copyright and generative AI; online piracy of time-sensitive copyright-protected content; the use in the EU of sound recordings by nationals of non-EU countries; and copyright and research. The salon will focus on generative AI and research, the two areas where the stakes are particularly high.

This is an opportunity to fix longstanding problems, but the Commission needs to widen its lens! A harmonised research exception and an EU-wide secondary publication right would give European researchers a much-needed boost. Yet unfair licensing conditions and uncertainty around liability also stand in their way. And any response to generative AI must consider its impact on cultural heritage institutions and free knowledge projects such as Wikipedia, which are essential pillars of the public information ecosystem.

To turn these concerns into concrete proposals, we will also launch a new campaign website presenting five fixes to EU copyright law that we want to see included in this initiative.

The discussion will bring together:

• Teresa Nobre, Legal Director of COMMUNIA;
• Paul Keller, Policy Director at Open Future and President of COMMUNIA;
• Brigitte Vézina, Director of Policy and Open Culture at Creative Commons; and
• Dimitar Zagorski, Policy Director at Wikimedia Europe.

Register now and discuss with us: What should the EU change to unlock research, support public-interest AI and sustain the knowledge resources we all depend on?

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