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With Christmas fast approaching, on December 8, the European Parliament wrapped up one of its biggest presents of the mandate: the AI Act. A landmark piece of legislation with the goal of regulating Artificial Intelligence while encouraging development and innovation. In sticking with the holiday theme, the last weeks of the negotiations have included everything […]
Yesterday, the European Parliament voted against a review of the geo-blocking rules for audiovisual (AV) content. Parliament adopted an IMCO own-initiative report on the implementation of the 2018 Geo-blocking Regulation, but also passed a number of amendments to effectively exclude AV content from the scope of a review. While the result isn’t binding, this is […]
As we’re approaching the European election season, COMMUNIA is rolling out its demands for the ‘24-’29 legislature. In an op-ed published on Euractiv, we ask the next Commission and Parliament to finally put the needs of Europe’s knowledge institutions, such as libraries, universities and schools front and center. Over the next five years, we need […]
Today, we are publishing an open letter from civil society organizations to members of the European Parliament ahead of the plenary vote on the IMCO own-initiative report on the implementation of the 2018 Geo-blocking Regulation scheduled for Tuesday, December 12, 2023. The letter refutes a number of grossly exaggerated claims made by rightsholders in an […]
Somewhat out of sight of the public eye there is another fight about EU copyright rules going on. This time it is about cross border online access to audiovisual works, and the widespread practice of streaming platforms to block access to customers from other member states – aka geo-blocking. Over the past weeks, we have […]
The phone lines are closed. The results are in. Twenty-five member states have implemented the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive. But who won the Eurovision DSM Contest? Who will be crowned as Europe’s new users’ rights champion? Participate in our virtual COMMUNIA salon on 12th of December, from 1500h to 1630 CET, to […]
Before the trilogue, COMMUNIA issued a statement, calling for a comprehensive approach on the transparency of training data in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. COMMUNIA and the co-signatories of that statement support more transparency around AI training data, going beyond data that is protected by copyright. It is still unclear whether the co-legislators will be […]
A fifth round of the trilogue negotiations on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is scheduled for October 24, 2023. Together with Creative Commons, and Wikimedia Europe, COMMUNIA, in a statement, calls on the co-legislators to take a holistic approach on AI transparency and agree on proportionate solutions. As discussed in greater detail in our Policy […]
That’s what we thought when we agreed to join the latest episode of the AI lab. podcast, fittingly titled “AI & the quest for transparency”. Over the course of 20 minutes, Teresa walks the listeners through some of the key questions when it comes to the training of generative AI models and how it affects […]
In April of this year we published our Policy Paper #15 on using copyrighted works for teaching the machine which deals with the copyright policy implications of using copyrighted works for machine learning (ML) training. The paper highlights that the current European copyright framework provides a well-balanced framework for such uses in the form of […]
