Today, COMMUNIA is launching fivefixes.eu, a new campaign website setting out five targeted changes to EU copyright law that could deliver significant benefits for research and innovation in Europe. Generative AI dominates the copyright debate. Yet policymakers must also address other persistent problems that prevent Europe’s knowledge ecosystem from reaching its full potential. With the […]
The Commission has put copyright back on the menu. This is a chance to remove longstanding issues, but will the initiative address all of them? Join COMMUNIA on Wednesday, 7 October, at 15:00 CEST for a special online salon to explore that question. We will share our first assessment of the recently opened public consultation […]
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 […]
The European Commission has launched a call for evidence on a possible legislative initiative to create a “better copyright environment for European creativity and innovation”. The call for evidence accompanies both the upcoming review of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive and the Commission’s exploration of targeted reforms addressing challenges linked to […]
On 1 June, COMMUNIA brought together policymakers, researchers, Public AI developers and cultural heritage professionals in Brussels for the event Copyright Liability and the Knowledge Ecosystem. The event explored a question that is becoming increasingly urgent for Europe’s knowledge institutions: how can public-interest actors exercise the rights granted to them by copyright exceptions when legal […]
Today, we are publishing a new report (available as a PDF file) on the experiences of cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) using the out-of-commerce works (OOCW) mechanism established under Article 8 of the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive). In April 2026, COMMUNIA convened an online discussion with seven […]
Last week, COMMUNIA hosted a Salon on the upcoming review of the EU Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive). The event, moderated by Paul Keller, brought together representatives from the European Commission and civil society to discuss how the Directive has been implemented across the EU and what lessons can be drawn […]
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 […]
Today we are releasing The Post-DSM Copyright Report (available as PDF here). This report analyses how Member States have implemented key user rights provisions of the DSM Directive: text and data mining rights, education rights, cultural heritage rights, the Public Domain safeguard, protections against overrides, limits to the press publishers’ right, and user rights safeguards […]
Seven years after its adoption, the DSM Directive is undergoing its scheduled review. The European Commission is assessing whether the Directive has met its objectives and whether reform is needed. At COMMUNIA, we have asked ourselves the same questions. Curious to hear where we landed? Join our online COMMUNIA Salon on 7 May at 15:00 […]
