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Europe should ensure more transparency across the copyright ecosystem.

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.

Cropped depiction of the interior of a book shop in 1815.
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