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…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,…
…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…
…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…
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…