Public dissemination of research activities, including for purposes of verification of research results and for engaging in collaborative research, are essential to the scientific method. Europe needs a mandatory exception to copyright and other exclusive rights that facilitates all non-commercial research activities, including sharing of protected materials between researchers.
Poland has been waiting for the implementation of the CDSM Directive into national law for almost 5 years. During this time some early implementation projects appeared, and in 2022 public consultations were conducted, after which things went quiet. After winning the elections in October 2023, the new ruling coalition embarked on another attempt to regulate […]
This article was first published on Kluwer Copyright Blog on February 20, 2024. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new administration took over and discovered that more than 2.5 years after the implementation deadline, Poland still had to […]
At the end of 2023, we organised a final salon on the implementation of the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market. Bulgaria had finally implemented the Directive, the second to last Member State to do so, and the moment seemed right to take stock of the implementation process one last […]
On 6th of March, from 1500h to 1700h, COMMUNIA will host the “Unlocking Knowledge Conference” at Town Hall Europe, which will bring together academics, representatives of civil society and EU policymakers to discuss how to enable knowledge institutions to play a bigger part in creating a flourishing information ecosystem. Knowledge institutions – educational, research, and […]
As we’re approaching the European election season, COMMUNIA is rolling out its proposals for the ‘24-’29 legislature. In an op-ed published on Euractiv, we ask the next Commission and Parliament to finally put the needs of Europe’s knowledge institutions, such as libraries, universities and schools, front and center. Over the next five years, we need […]
This publication by COMMUNIA, Centrum Cyfrowe, Wikimedia Sverige and the Intellectual Property Law Institute intends to demonstrate some of the problems that EU researchers face due to the lack of exceptions to access research resources remotely and to share research results and underlying resources for purposes of verification and dissemination. It assembles a selection of […]
The legislative decree implementing the CDSM Directive in Italy was adopted on November 8th, 2021, and published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on November 27th. It came into force on December 12th, 2021, amending the Italian Copyright Law (April 22nd 1941, n.633 – Legge sul diritto d’autore, referred to below as “LdA”). This blog post analyses […]
COMMUNIA is part of a group of civil society organizations from all around the globe that promotes access to, and use of, knowledge, the Access to Knowledge or A2K Coalition. COMMUNIA has been a co-initiator of the A2K Coalition. Today, the A2K Coalition is launching its website with demands for education, research and cultural heritage. […]
