To ensure that the public has access to reliable information on their rights, Europe should strive to create a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works. Among other things, such a repository would protect Public Domain and openly licensed works from copyright abuse (including by automated enforcement). In addition, collective management organisations should be required to share publicly their data on right holders, and platforms should be required to share publicly their data on enforcement actions.
With all the hearings of Commissioners-designate in the books, we present to you our key insights for copyright policy. Unsurprisingly, copyright is only one among many concerns of von der Leyen’s second mandate. Nonetheless, it is a cross-cutting issue that will keep multiple members of her College busy. Two hearings stood out in particular: Ekaterina […]
This article was first published on the Open Future blog on October 10, 2024. Two weeks ago, the Landgericht Hamburg decided the case LAION vs Kneschke. The latter – a photographer – had sued LAION for including one of his pictures in the LAION-5B training data set, claiming that this amounted to copyright infringement. The […]
On October 2nd, COMMUNIA was invited to contribute to an event by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Future of Work programme in Brussels entitled “Rebooting the debate: Generative AI and creative work.” COMMUNIA President and Open Future Policy Director Paul Keller provided a keynote speech on the current legal framework on copyright and AI, noting that Articles 3 […]
The European AI Office’s public consultation Future-Proof AI Act: Trustworthy General-Purpose AI wraps up tomorrow. This multi-stakeholder consultation is aimed at informing the drafting process of the first Code of Practice, which will detail the AI Act rules for providers of general-purpose AI models and general-purpose AI models with systemic risks. Earlier this month COMMUNIA […]
The end is in sight! After delays at (almost) every stage of the legislative process, the EU AI Act will soon be published in the EU’s official journal and eventually enter into force in August. This marks the end of more than 3 years of negotiations since the text was originally proposed by the European […]
Earlier this week, COMMUNIA member Open Future, together with Mozilla, published a proposal for the implementation of the AI Act’s training data transparency requirement. The paper includes a blueprint for the transparency template for developers of GPAI models that the EU AI Office will need to develop over the next 12 months. The AI Act […]
This is the final blog post in our series on trends in national copyright policy following the DSM implementation. With the national processes finalised in all Member States, we have analysed the transpositions to understand the impact of our proposals, identify areas of convergence and divergence, and assess how those affect the position of users […]
As we approach the final decisions on the AI Act, with the member state vote scheduled for Friday of this week, there are still rumblings of discontent among member states. Surprisingly, one of the most prominent sticking points is the French government’s dissatisfaction with parts of the copyright transparency provisions in the final compromise text. […]
With Christmas fast approaching, on December 8, the European Parliament wrapped up one of its biggest presents of the mandate: the AI Act. A landmark piece of legislation with the goal of regulating Artificial Intelligence while encouraging development and innovation. In sticking with the holiday theme, the last weeks of the negotiations have included everything […]
A fifth round of the trilogue negotiations on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is scheduled for October 24, 2023. Together with Creative Commons, and Wikimedia Europe, COMMUNIA, in a statement, calls on the co-legislators to take a holistic approach on AI transparency and agree on proportionate solutions. As discussed in greater detail in our Policy […]
