Find here all 25 other publications issued by COMMUNIA.
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 […]
This independent expert study, commissioned by COMMUNIA and Knowledge Rights 21 to Christophe Geiger Bernd and 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 […]
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 […]
