Preserving the Public Domain
Copyright Week provides a timely opportunity to reflect on Communia’s mission to preserve the public domain and our common heritage against copyright extension, misleading attempts to privatize public domain works,…
Copyright Week provides a timely opportunity to reflect on Communia’s mission to preserve the public domain and our common heritage against copyright extension, misleading attempts to privatize public domain works,…
…of new exclusive rights. It is time to reverse this trend. To achieve this goal, we are committed to making COMMUNIA an even stronger voice for the Public Domain in…
…abuses the stakeholder process that the Commission was legally required to hold as part of the hard fought-political compromise embodied in Article 17. Where the Commission initially lived up to…
…an ancillary copyright that already has proven itself worthless in practice. Access to most audio-visual content will continue to be hampered by geo-blocking (which the Commission had earlier committed to…
…call the ‘Internet Ecosystem value tree’: The ‘Internet Ecosystem value tree’ according to the European Commission. Apparently this Internet Ecosystem value tree is rather important in how the Commission sees…
…of communication. Moreover, it must be ensured that the competitiveness of European enterprises and the freedom of scientific communication are not impaired. Based on this is seems clear that the…
…of Reference for a Comparative Study on Copyright Relinquishment COMMUNIA International Association on the Public Domain welcomes the document produced by the WIPO Secretariat in preparation for the tenth session…
…important that you continue to tell the members of the JURI committee to Save Your Internet by voting against the compromise proposals proposed by the Rapporteur, Axel Voss, and support…
The European Commission’s public consultation on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain and on the ‘panorama exception’ wraps up on 15 June. COMMUNIA has submitted its response…
…The real test for the Commission’s Guidance will be the Polish challenge of the fundamental rights compliance of the filtering provisions in Article 17, that is currently pending before the…