The Public Domain at WIPO CDIP/9
In November, Communia made a statement to support the Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain by Séverine Dusollier (document CDIP/7/INF/2) discussed at the WIPO Committee…
In November, Communia made a statement to support the Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain by Séverine Dusollier (document CDIP/7/INF/2) discussed at the WIPO Committee…
…has been acknowledged at least since 2013, when the Creative Commons community argued that the movement behind open licensing policies needs to be involved in the copyright reform debate as…
The aim of this position paper is to respond to the call made by European Commission to open public discussion on digital single market and its expected shape in the…
…The opinion comes following the committee vote on 11 July. We were hopeful that CULT could deliver some helpful (and much needed) changes to the Commission’s proposal, including broadening the…
…and record companies), at which point the chair abruptly declared the meeting of the stakeholder dialogue closed. If the Commission really believes that this stakeholder dialogue represents “a new paradigm”…
…of copyright law as well as for the compatibility of upload filters with fundamental rights even beyond copyright law. To discuss these consequences, COMMUNIA and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte are jointly…
…competitiveness by increasing the production of databases. The Commission should repeal the sui generis database right and harmonize the limitations and exceptions for the copyright section of the Database Directive…
…provide – for the common good – incentives to authors, now last an unprecedented seventy years (in Europe and in many other countries) after the death of the authors. A…
…progress on the Commission’s Article 17 implementation guidance. Originally expected to be presented in the second half of 2020, there is no sign of them yet. So far the Commission…
We are publishing today our position paper on copyright reform in Europe (PDF), as a statement in the ongoing debate that focuses on the reform of the Information Society Directive….