Posts tagged with: AI

As the European Union actively pursues digital sovereignty, a fundamental structural misalignment has emerged between its innovation objectives and its existing legal frameworks. Across Europe, academic research consortia are utilising public funding to build open-source, public-interest Large Language Models (LLMs). However, as our newest study commissioned by COMMUNIA and conducted by Centrum Cyfrowe and Open […]

Today, Centrum Cyfrowe is publishing Barriers to Research: Insights into the Patchwork of Research Exceptions in European Copyright Laws and Practical Perspectives from European Researchers, a report prepared in collaboration with the Future Law Lab at the Jagiellonian University (the PDF is available on Zenodo).1 The report examines whether the European copyright framework is keeping […]

On 1 June at 14:00 CEST, COMMUNIA will host an in-person event at TownHall Europe in Brussels exploring one of the most pressing challenges facing Europe’s knowledge ecosystem: how legal uncertainty around copyright affects research, libraries, and public-interest AI development. What to expect? Across Europe, universities, research organisations, libraries, and archives rely on copyrighted materials […]

As part of the Digital Omnibus Proposal, the Commission proposes to integrate the provisions of the Open Data Directive (2019/1024) into an expanded Data Act. While the Commission proposal argues that the changes introduced through this process are merely technical in nature, this process provides the opportunity to review and fix parts of the existing […]

Last year, Denmark introduced amendments to its Copyright Act granting copyright-like protection to individuals’ personal characteristics and digital imitations of performances. As we argued during the public consultation, while the objective of this initiative—to protect individuals and performing artists against AI-generated deepfakes—is commendable, copyright is not the appropriate legal framework to address these concerns. In […]

The plenary vote to adopt the own-initiative (INI) report initiated by Axel Voss brings to a close a process that began in June 2025. While many aspects of the report improved during the committee stage and the text itself does not have immediate legal consequences, the overall outcome remains disappointing. The report is still incoherent […]

Today, the JURI Committee adopted Axel Voss’s own-initiative report on copyright and generative AI. The Committee also endorsed all compromise amendments, some of which reflect concerns raised by COMMUNIA and other stakeholders. However, even with these changes, the report still contains ambiguities and problematic language that risk creating legal uncertainty, particularly for researchers and developers […]

MEP Axel Voss’s own-initiative report on copyright and generative AI will be put to a vote in the JURI Committee on 28 January. Although framed as a response to legitimate questions around AI and copyright, the proposal suffers from serious shortcomings, most notably its disregard for the existing legal framework. Despite some more constructive compromise […]

In July, MEP Axel Voss released his draft for an own initiative report on Copyright and generative AI in the JURI Committee. While the proposal was well-intentioned, in our initial reaction we were quick to criticize numerous aspects of the text, most notably its disregard for the existing legal framework, ambiguous proposals and lack of […]

Last week, COMMUNIA submitted its response (PDF file) to the CSPLA Task Force on the Protection of Content Generated Using Generative AI. Our contribution build on our Policy Paper #22 against new exclusive rights for AI-generated outputs, stressing that EU copyright law is fully equipped to deal with AI-generated outputs, that the existing EU originality […]