COMMUNIA supports the WTO TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19
Today, Communia and a group of over 100 organisations and more than 150 academics and experts issued a statement calling for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily suspend its…
Today, Communia and a group of over 100 organisations and more than 150 academics and experts issued a statement calling for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily suspend its…
At the end of the last year COMMUNIA submitted its response to the European Commission’s public consultation on online platforms. While we have not hidden the fact that this particular…
…purpose is not considered to be exempted. 5. Consider benefits of commercial use Users can benefit commercially from a parody in France or from a movie shot in a public…
In our capacity of permanent observers of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), we are attending the 38th session of the Committee, which is taking place…
…heritage institutions… Cultural Heritage Institutions struggle with making their collections available online. While large parts of their collections are not commercially available anymore, or were never in commercial circulation to…
Last October, COMMUNIA was invited by the European Commission to a stakeholder dialogue to improve cross border access to audiovisual (AV) content. As part of the stakeholder dialogue, the European…
…confront this inconvenient (for both rightholders and platforms) truth. In this situation, the Commission will need to show if it is willing to defend the legislative compromise reached with Article…
…on the method This is illustrated by the Commission’s own report on the responses to the consultation. The above chart shows that users are underrepresented in the Commission’s summary of…
…dramatic work and/or the screening of an entire film. Treating educational activities differently based on the rights or technologies involved adds complexity to an already complex legal framework. For example,…
In our capacity as permanent observers of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), we are attending the 42nd sessionof the Committee, which is taking place in…