Find here all 35 events hosted by COMMUNIA with a video recording.
On Tuesday, June 18th, 15:00-16:00 CEST, we are hosting an online salon on the hollowing out of the Public Domain through cultural heritage laws with a particular focus on Italy. In recent years, we have witnessed a number of problematic court cases around the commercial reuse of Public Domain works held by Italian cultural heritage […]
On Wednesday, May 29th, 15:00-16:00 CET, we are hosting an online COMMUNIA Salon to take stock of the state of e-lending in Europe and discuss solutions. Libraries have long played a crucial role in ensuring broad public access to knowledge and culture. Today, digital access to reliable information is more important than ever. And yet […]
On January 1st of every year, new works enter the Public Domain. However, often times these works can still end up being inaccessible to the public, despite the fact that, legally speaking, nothing should prevent public access. In order to share experiences and best practices in opening up this material, COMMUNIA, alongside Creative Commons, Europeana, […]
Knowledge institutions – educational, research, and cultural heritage institutions – are an important part of the critical infrastructure of modern societies and economies. They play a crucial role in enabling European citizens to access information and contribute to an environment that is favourable to innovation and the creation of new knowledge. Unfortunately, these institutions face […]
The phone lines are closed. The results are in. Twenty-five member states have implemented the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive. But who won the Eurovision DSM Contest? Who have we crowned as Europe’s new users’ rights champion? On December 12th, we celebrated the Eurovision DSM Contest Afterparty, reviewing the implementation of the Copyright […]
COMMUNIA and Wikimedia Deutschland hosted a presentation and discussion of the book “Chokepoint Capitalism” with author Rebecca Giblin on June 27, 2023 in Berlin. The labour markets for creatives have been taken over by Big Tech and Big Content. How can we take them back and ensure that creative workers are paid fairly? Rebecca Giblin, […]
COMMUNIA and reCreating Europe hosted the joint expert workshop “Copyright Flexibilities: mapping, explaining, empowering”, which took place in a hybrid format at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law (IViR) and on Zoom on September 21st, 2022, from 09:00 to 17:00 CEST. At the workshop, three websites/databases tracking the status of users’ rights and […]
COMMUNIA and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte co-hosted the conference “Filtered Futures: Fundamental Rights Constraints of Upload Filters after the CJEU Ruling on Article 17 of the Copyright Directive” on September 19th, 2022, at Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin. The recording of the conference webstream is available below and through COMMUNIA’s Vimeo account. The CJEU decision on […]
On Tuesday, the 31st of May 2022, COMMUNIA presented twenty new policy recommendations that will guide our association’s work for the next decade. We brought together fellow activists, academics, policy makers and other stakeholders from across the copyright policy spectrum in Brussels to celebrate the occasion. Our new policy recommendations build on the principles of […]
Communia hosted a virtual salon to discuss the implications of the highly anticipated CJEU decision on Article 17 and what it means for the national implementations of Article 17. The Court’s judgement in case C-401/19 marked an important moment in the discussions about Article 17 as it provides more clarity on the European Commission’s implementation […]
