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 […]
On September 18, 2025, the Italian Senate definitively approved the country’s first comprehensive framework law on artificial intelligence (AI). The new law also reflects Italy’s commitment to aligning its domestic legal system with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), ensuring coherence between national rules and the emerging European regulatory framework. Law no. 132 […]
In June 2025, the Danish government together with a number of opposition parties jointly proposed the establishment of a safeguard against the sharing of digital imitations by amending the Copyright Act by introducing two protections: 1) A general protection against realistic digitally generated imitations of personal characteristics; and (2) An imitation protection for performing artists. […]
The EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice is finally out (download the copyright chapter as a PDF file). The Code of Practice—drafted by independent experts with input from over 1,000 stakeholders—should have been ready “at the latest by 2 May 2025” (Article 56(9) AI Act). However, as a result of several stakeholders pushing back against […]
Today, COMMUNIA is releasing Policy Paper #22 against new exclusive rights for AI-generated outputs (also available as a PDF file), in which we present the case against the introduction of a sui generis or related right for AI-generated outputs that fall short of the standards of copyright protection. Generative AI has seen rapid mainstream adoption. […]
On May 12, COMMUNIA hosted an online Salon on the unfair practices that have become commonplace in licensing negotiations between rightholders and libraries in the public and academic sectors. The video recording is now available through Vimeo. To kick things off, COMMUNIA Legal Director Teresa Nobre presented our latest report, Unfair licensing practices: the library […]
This week, we released a new report detailing unfair practices in the licensing of digital resources to libraries (as a PDF file). This report describes contractual practices identified by licensing managers from public and academic libraries across Europe during a meeting organised by COMMUNIA under the Chatham House Rule. The report also contains clauses from […]
