Find here all 27 other publications issued by COMMUNIA.
This report covers COMMUNIA’s activities between January 1, 2025 to November 30, 2025. This corresponds to the third reporting period for our structural grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, which started in July 2022. 2025 marks a consolidation phase for COMMUNIA’s work at the European level. Building on the […]
This one-pager outlines the issues present within the Commission proposal for a Digital Omnibus. As it stands, the changes foreseen to the Open Data Directive would likely prompt public sector bodies to abandon open licences and adopt conditional licences, making these sources difficult or impossible to re-use in open projects and to combine with data […]
This analysis explores how museums perceive and manage exposure to legal risks, with a particular focus on copyright and intellectual property in the context of cultural heritage. These legal fears arise from a potential improper or unauthorized use of collection materials, often involving issues like copyright infringement when fulfilling their public interest mission (when organising […]
This is the Polish 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. The translation was done by COMMUNIA […]
This is the French 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. The translation was done 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 […]
