Events

On Monday the 7th of June 2021 the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive entered into force. To mark this event Communia organised a special Salon taking stock of the implementation process across the EU and taking a closer look at the latest developments around Article 17 of the Directive. The event kicked off […]

Communia organised the next edition of our virtual COMMUNIA Salons. This time discussions returned to the German implementation proposal for Article 17 of the DSM directive: On the 3rd of February the German government formally adopted its implementation proposal, headed for a first reading in the German parliament (Bundestag) later the same month. The Salon […]

In the first COMMUNIA salon of 2021 discussions focusse on the most controversial question of the discussions surrounding the implementation of Article 17: the need to introduce ex-ante user rights safeguards in national implementations of the directive, to ensure that legitimate uses of third party works cannot be automatically blocked. In the discussions over the […]

Communia organised the fourth Salon of 2020. During the online event, organised in cooperation with the #NoWorries project, discussions focussed on policies that concern digital cultural heritage. The meeting took place right after the European Commission closed its consultation on opportunities offered by digital technologies for the culture heritage sector. In the consultations, the European […]

In July we held the third virtual edition of our COMMUNIA Salon. This edition focussed on the recent German proposal to implement Article 17 of the DSM Directive and included contributions by John Henrik Weitzmann (Wikimedia Deutschland), Felix Reda (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte), Martin Husovec (London School of Economics) and Paul Keller (COMMUNIA). If you have […]

After the success of the first virtual COMMUNIA salon we held a follow-up event on Thursday, the 18th of June, focussing on the role of the now mandatory exceptions and limitations for quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody and pastiche in the context of the implementation of Article 17 of the DSM directive. Special attention was […]

In light of the process of implementation of the new Copyright Directive speeding up in various countries (see our Implementation Tracker), COMMUNIA has decided to organize a series of webinars aimed at explaining the different provisions of the new Copyright Directive and making suggestions on what to advocate for during the implementation process of those […]

On the first anniversary of the entry into force of the Copyright in the DSM Directive, we held the first virtual edition of our COMMUNIA Salon. During the event we presented an overview of the implementation status in the EU member states, zoomed in on various legislative proposals to implement Articles 15 and 17 of […]

The 2018 version of CopyCamp took place on October 5th and 6th in Warsaw. For the past 6 years, CopyCamp has been a place for interesting, insightful and engaging discussions about copyright in the EU. Every year an international, interdisciplinary group of artists, experts, scientists, and activists meets to exchange experience, and show that this […]

On the 11th of April the high-level international conference “A better copyright  for quality higher education and research in Europe and beyond”, organised by ETUCE with partnership of European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE) and the COMMUNIA network was held in the Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre. The conference offered the opportunity to discuss and […]