Find here all 22 other publications issued by COMMUNIA.
In February 2025, COMMUNIA invited licensing managers from public and academic libraries across Europe to a meeting in Brussels to share their experiences in licensing digital resources for education, research and community development. This report details the obstacles identified by the licensing managers during the meeting. In addition to the experiences of licensing managers, the […]
The Access to Knowledge Coalition expresses deep concern regarding the draft broadcast treaty under discussion at WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. The Broadcast Treaty in its current form is a treaty without a purpose. The original purpose of the treaty was to protect traditional broadcasters against theft of their signals. By extending […]
This is the German version of our brochure A Digital Knowledge Act for Europe. In this publication, we lay out our ideas for a Digital Knowledge Act – a targeted legislative intervention that enables libraries, archives, universities and other knowledge institutions to offer the same services online as offline. Our booklet is structured along four […]
This report covers COMMUNIA’s activities between January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. This corresponds to the second reporting period for our structural grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, which started in July 2022. During the reporting period, we benefited from a consolidated organisational structure and an established strategy. […]
In this publication, we lay out our ideas for a Digital Knowledge Act – a targeted legislative intervention that enables libraries, archives, universities and other knowledge institutions to offer the same services online as offline. Our booklet is structured along four actions to empower knowledge institutions in the digital age: Protect the Public Domain! Unlock […]
This independent expert study, commissioned by COMMUNIA and Knowledge Rights 21 to Christophe Geiger Bernd Justin Jütte, explores what positive obligations must be imposed on rightholders as a consequence of the rights users enjoy under copyright law, in particular in the light of the fundamental rights they are reflecting. A particular focus of the study […]
This annual report 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 allow it to operate independently and […]
This independent expert opinion, commissioned by COMMUNIA to Giulia Dore and Giulia Priora, inquires about the compatibility of the Italian legal system with EU law at the intersection of cultural heritage and public domain artworks. This study is motivated by the Italian implementation of Article 14 CDSM Directive and recent case law concerning the reproduction […]
The 2nd edition of this publication by COMMUNIA, Centrum Cyfrowe, Wikimedia Sverige and the Intellectual Property Law Institute assembles a wider selection of interviews than the 1st edition, and features researchers working on EU-funded cross-border research projects.
This publication by COMMUNIA, Centrum Cyfrowe, Wikimedia Sverige and the Intellectual Property Law Institute intends to demonstrate some of the problems that EU researchers face due to the lack of exceptions to access research resources remotely and to share research results and underlying resources for purposes of verification and dissemination. It assembles a selection of […]
