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…Assembly’s Culture and Education (CULT) Committee, on the first week of March. The CULT Committee worked its way through 1.327 amendments to the proposal. On 5 March, the CULT Committee…
…ease and impact unforeseeable even just a generation ago. COMMUNIA’s mission is to foster, strengthen and enrich the Public Domain. Its origins trace back to the eponymous, originally European Commission-funded,…
Last week Communia joined the “European Observatory on Infringements of IPR” which is hosted by the European Union’s Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). The Observatory’s task is…
…as well as liberal open licensing) – preferably under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license or equivalent. OA is beneficial for the research community, for the economy and for…
Two weeks ago, the Uffizi Gallery sent ripples through the open community by suing French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier for using Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1483) —…
…more. While the Commission directs critics of the stakeholder dialogue to the parallel review of the EU legal framework that the Commission is currently undertaking, there is very little reason…
…of out-of-commerce works and other subject matter provided for in Article 8(2) only applies to materials published, communicated to the public or made available to the public prior to 1…
…publication (probably) not fully complies with EU law: AT, HR, EE, FR, LT, ES No definition of press publication: DK Most MS fail to make a compliant implementation of all…
…amendments would change the copyright directive so that it does not contradict the E-Commerce directive by changing the liability obligations. This is necessary, because the proposal of the Commision is…