Find here all 37 events hosted by COMMUNIA with a video recording.
COMMUNIA organized a Public Domain Day celebration at the European Parliament. The event, which focused on showcasing creators who have chosen to donate their output to the public domain, was hosted by MEP Felix Reda. The following creators participated in the event and shared their experiences as input at the lunch table discussions: Kenney Vleugels, […]
How to secure user rights in education? This was the question we asked during a policy debate organised by Communia and hosted by MEP Michał Boni in the European Parliament on the 17th of November. Panelists, politicians and stakeholders participating in this debate discussed two approaches: the creation and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), […]
Communia has partnered up with EDRi, organising the “School of Rock(ing) EU Copyright” in Warsaw, Poland, November 5-6th. COMMUNIA advocates for policies that strengthen the public domain and increase access to and reuse of culture and knowledge, and we believe that a strong network of activists for European copyright reform is crucial for this. Events […]
On Monday, June 18, MEP Amelia Andersdotter, along with her colleague MEP Ioannis Tsoukalas, hosted the launch of the book ”The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”, edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin as an output of the Communia Thematic Network.
Following the trend established by the Communia Thematic Network, we celebrated Public Domain Day in Paris on the 26th of January with an event organised by the COMMUNIA Association, Wikimedia France, Creative Commons France, the CNRS Institute for Communication Sciences and the Open Knowledge Foundation. What unites all these organisations is that they share the […]
COMMUNIA hosted a kickoff workshop before the CC Global Summit bringing together stakeholders to begin a global project to encourage GLAM institutions to make their metadata and digital copies of public domain works freely and openly available for all to reuse without restriction.
After almost four years of activities, the COMMUNIA Project has closed down but many members, willing to pursue its overall goals, decided to form an International Non-Profit Association based in Brussels. The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society and […]
