Video recording of “Unlocking Knowledge Conference” now available
International Communia Association
by COMMUNIA Association
1w ago
On the 6th of March 2024, we were delighted to welcome a full house at our “Unlocking Knowledge Conference” at Town Hall Europe. At this event, we asked academics, civil society representatives and EU policymakers about the issues knowledge institutions and researchers still face when accessing and using copyrighted materials in their activities, particularly in their digital activities. COMMUNIA defends that the introduction of a targeted legislative instrument, a Digital Knowledge Act for Europe, covering the needs of knowledge institutions in the digital environment, would be the way forwar ..read more
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Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights
International Communia Association
by Bernd Justin Jütte
2w ago
The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017). The social contract of copyright, which main purpose is to realize a broader collective concern, the access of citizens to science and culture (Geiger, 2013), lies in the approximation of the interests of rightholders and users. Unfortunately, this perspective has been long overshadowed in the EU by a traditional understanding of copyright as a system that grants exclusive ..read more
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2nd edition of publication “Nobody puts research in a cage: Researchers’ perspectives on working with copyright.”
International Communia Association
by COMMUNIA Association
3w ago
A fair and modern copyright framework is essential for an enabling European research environment. However, researchers often find that their access, use and reuse of resources essential to their activities is still limited by copyright and related rights. While, thanks to the 2019 DSM directive, they now benefit from a EU wide text and data mining exception, the exception only covers acts of copying for a specific subset of research activities. The right of communication to the public, which is necessary for cross border or remote access to share resources and research results for the purpose ..read more
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TDM: Poland challenges the rule of EU copyright law
International Communia Association
by Paul Keller
3w ago
This article was first published on the Kluwer Copyright Blog on date 20/02/2024 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 implement the provisions of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive into national law. So how do you make lemonade out of the fact that you are the only EU Member State without an implementation? You claim that the d ..read more
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The Good, the Bad and the Missing – the new proposal for the implementation of the CDSM Directive into Polish law.
International Communia Association
by Konrad Gliściński
3w ago
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 these issues. Currently, we are at the end of yet another round of public consultations. In this blogpost we gather the most important highlights regarding the new implementation project. The “Good” (which could still be better) In the CJEU ..read more
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Access to and use of public sector documents and public speeches – new policy paper
International Communia Association
by COMMUNIA Association
3w ago
Access and use of public sector documents and political speeches are key to a thriving democracy and civil society as they ensure transparency and accountability. Furthermore, they provide society with important historical records about political decision making. Copyright and paywalls, however, can render access to these materials difficult or prohibitively expensive. Today, COMMUNIA is releasing a new policy paper #16 “on public sector documents and public speeches” (also available as a PDF file), in which we are proposing EU level solutions to guarantee access to an usability of these essen ..read more
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The Post-DSM Copyright Report: Public Domain and cultural heritage rights
International Communia Association
by Teresa Nobre
1M ago
This is the third entry to a series of blog posts highlighting the positive and negative trends in national copyright policy following the DSM implementation. With the implementation process finalised in 26 out of 27 Member States, we’re comparing the national implementations to understand the impact of our proposals, identify areas of convergence and divergence, and evaluate how those affect the position of users and the Public Domain. Previously, we presented our analysis on research rights and education rights. Today, we share the results of our study on the implementation of the Public Dom ..read more
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The Post-DSM Copyright Report: education rights
International Communia Association
by Teresa Nobre
1M ago
This is the second entry to a series of blog posts highlighting the positive and negative trends in national copyright policy following the DSM implementation. With the implementation process finalised in all but one Member State, we conducted a comparative analysis of the national implementations to understand the impact of our proposals, identify the areas where Member States have varied or converged, and evaluate whether these variations affect the position of users and the Public Domain. The first blog post presented our findings concerning the implementation of research rights. In this fo ..read more
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The Post-DSM Copyright Report: research rights 
International Communia Association
by Teresa Nobre
1M ago
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 time. While Poland still needs to conclude its national transposition, the comparative analysis of the laws of 26 Member States is sufficient to identify major flaws and new directions coming out of the implementation of the DSM Directive. In this series of blog posts, we present ..read more
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COMMUNIA’s Unlocking Knowledge Conference
International Communia Association
by COMMUNIA Association
2M ago
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 cultural heritage institutions – play an important role in enabling citizens to access information and contribute to an environment that encourages innovation and the creation of new knowledge. Yet these institutions are fre ..read more
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