On 13 October, 14:00 to 15:00 CEST, join us for a new COMMUNIA Salon exploring the French “Rodin case” and a deceptively simple question at the heart of access to cultural heritage: Should 3D scans of works in the Public Domain be freely available for reuse, including for commercial purposes? The dispute at hand, the […]
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 […]
Today, we’re releasing Navigating Uncertainty: Legal Risk Awareness and Management in European Museums, a study commissioned by COMMUNIA and conducted by Centrum Cyfrowe (available as a PDF file). As part of our work on a Digital Knowledge Act, we have identified the fear of being sued and held liable for copyright infringement as a major […]
The review of the DSM Directive is just around the corner. To mark the occasion, we’ve invited several experts to reflect on the issues the Directive aimed to fix—but didn’t. Maarten Zeinstra’s guest post on the failure of Article 8 kicks off this series. With Article 8 of the DSM Directive, we imagined lowering the […]
COMMUNIA has signed the Open Heritage Statement — a global call to advance equitable access to Public Domain heritage in the digital environment and to help inform international policy. As a founding member of the TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage), a global community effort steered by our member Creative Commons, COMMUNIA […]
A Polish version of our brochure A Digital Knowledge Act for Europe is now available (as a PDF file). In this publication, we provide an overview of the barriers that prevent libraries, archives, universities and other knowledge institutions from carrying out their public interest mission in the digital environment and present solutions. Like the English […]
A French version of our brochure A Digital Knowledge Act for Europe is now available (as a PDF file). In this publication, we provide an overview of the barriers that prevent libraries, archives, universities and other knowledge institutions from carrying out their public interest mission in the digital environment and present solutions. Like the English […]
A German version of our brochure A Digital Knowledge Act for Europe is now available (as a PDF file). In this publication, we provide an overview of the barriers that prevent libraries, archives, universities and other knowledge institutions from carrying out their public interest mission in the digital environment and present solutions. Like the English […]
We’re excited to join the TAROCH Coalition, a global community effort steered by our member Creative Commons to encourage UNESCO to achieve the adoption of a UNESCO standard-setting instrument to improve open access to cultural heritage. The Coalition is led by representatives of a global, diverse community of organisations and institutions involved in cultural heritage […]
