Find here all 37 events hosted by COMMUNIA with a video recording.
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 […]
In this COMMUNIA Salon, we explored the future of the sui generis database right and how this right should evolve in the context of the proposed Data Act. For this edition we were joined among others by Krzysztof Nichczynski (DG Connect, European Commission) who presented the European Commission’s rationale for the Data Act, Martin Husovec […]
COMMUNIA and Wikimedia Deutschland held a panel discussion to discuss whether the new mandatory exceptions in the EU Copyright Directive could serve as a model to solve some of the most pressing international-level problems around education and research.
COMMUNIA organised a special lunch edition Salon to analyze the Opinion that CJEU Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe issued on Case C-401/19, the Polish request to annul Article 17 of the CDSM directive. His Opinion finds that Article 17 is compatible with the freedom of expression and information guaranteed in Article 11 of the Charter of […]
Communia celebrated its 10th anniversary with an online birthday party. To kick off the festivities, we reviewed the 14 policy recommendations that COMMUNIA issued 10 years ago to see what happened to them over the past decade (from 00:03 to 00:21 in the recording). As it turns out a fair number of them have been […]
On Monday the 7th of June 2021 the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive entered into force. To mark this event Communia organised a special Salon taking stock of the implementation process across the EU and taking a closer look at the latest developments around Article 17 of the Directive. The event kicked off […]
Communia organised the next edition of our virtual COMMUNIA Salons. This time discussions returned to the German implementation proposal for Article 17 of the DSM directive: On the 3rd of February the German government formally adopted its implementation proposal, headed for a first reading in the German parliament (Bundestag) later the same month. The Salon […]
In the first COMMUNIA salon of 2021 discussions focusse on the most controversial question of the discussions surrounding the implementation of Article 17: the need to introduce ex-ante user rights safeguards in national implementations of the directive, to ensure that legitimate uses of third party works cannot be automatically blocked. In the discussions over the […]
Communia organised the fourth Salon of 2020. During the online event, organised in cooperation with the #NoWorries project, discussions focussed on policies that concern digital cultural heritage. The meeting took place right after the European Commission closed its consultation on opportunities offered by digital technologies for the culture heritage sector. In the consultations, the European […]
