At the workshop, three websites/databases tracking the status of users’ rights and copyright flexibilities in Europe: https://www.copyrightexceptions.eu, http://www.copyrightflexibilities.eu and http://www.copyrightuser.eu will be launched. In addition, we will gather feedback on the websites’ functionality and plan their future. We will be joined by copyright experts who contributed to the mapping and stakeholders representing various groups of beneficiaries to discuss the state of copyright flexibilities and policy options at the EU and national levels. 

Represented by Teresa Nobre and Paul Keller, COMMUNIA will showcase the project copyrightexceptions.eu, a collaborative effort of COMMUNIA, Open Future and Digital Republic, mapping the European Union’s copyright framework and providing information on the national implementation of the various exceptions and limitations to copyright and related rights contained in EU copyright law.

Registration for both online and offline attendance is free of charge. Please register here.

For any queries, please contact rosie.allison@libereuriope.org.

Programme

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction and greetings (Paul Keller, Caterina Sganga)

9:15 – 10:15 Three platforms to explain, engage, empower

• copyrightexceptions.eu (Paul Keller, COMMUNIA/Open Future)
• copyrightflexibilities.eu (Caterina Sganga, reCreating/Sant’Anna Pisa)
• copyrightuser.eu (Bartolomeo Meletti, reCreating/CREATe Glasgow)

10:15 – 11:15 Flexibilities for teaching and research

Chair: Teresa Nobre (COMMUNIA)

Speakers: Ana Lazarova (COMMUNIA/Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski); Justin Jutte (University College Dublin); Matej Myska (Masaryk University Brno)

11.15 – 11.30 – Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Flexibilities for cultural uses and preservations

Chair: Caterina Sganga (reCreating/Sant’Anna Pisa)

Speakers: Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven); Rita Matulionyte (Macquarie University Sidney); Leo Pascault (Science Po Paris)

12:30 – 13:45 Flexibilities for freedom of expression (quotation, parody, informatory purposes)

Chair: Paul Keller (COMMUNIA/Open Future)

Speakers: Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou (University of Cyprus); Philipp Homar (Donau-Universität Krems); Julien Cabay (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and University of Liege); Conception Saiz Garcia (University of Valencia)

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break

14:30 – 15:30 Roundtable on best practices on Copyright flexibilities

• Presentation of best practices and moderation (Caterina Sganga)
• Open debate

15:30 – 16:30 Roundtable on the way ahead: data collection, editorial boards, platforms maintenance

Moderator: Paul Keller (COMMUNIA/Open Future)

16:30 Wrap up, closing and drinks

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Taking place on Monday, September 19th, in Berlin at Robert Bosch Stiftung, Filtered Futures will discuss the consequences of the CJEU ruling on Article 17 of the Copyright Directive for fundamental rights. 

Registration for in-person attendance is now closed. It will be possible to follow the live stream of the conference here.

After the closing of the conference, COMMUNIA will be hosting a networking reception from 17:00 to 19:00.

Programme

08:45-09:15 Door Opening

09:15-09:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks by Susanne Zels (Robert Bosch Stiftung) and Felix Reda (GFF – Society for Civil Rights)

10:00-12:00 Session 1: Fragmentation or Harmonization? The impact of the Judgment on National Implementations – While the CJEU has rejected the Polish challenge to Article 17, the Court has formulated a number of requirements for ensuring that national implementations are fundamental rights compliant. In this light, the opening session of the conference will examine the consequences of the judgment for Member States’ implementations of Article 17. What are the requirements established by the judgment for national legislators? How do the existing national implementations measure up to these requirements? Which implementation strategies are available to those member states that still have to implement the directive? And have platforms already reacted to the existing national implementations?

• Bernd Justin Jütte (​​University College Dublin): Imperatives for implementing Article 17: the importance of national implementations.
• Finn Hümmer (Stockholm University): Implications from C-401/19 for national transpositions under the light of freedom of expression.
• Jasmin Brieske (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main): The impact of the enactment of the German OCSSP Act on selected online platforms.
• Christina Angelopoulos (University of Cambridge): The national implementations of Article 17 of the EU’s CDSM Directive.
• Moderator: Paul Keller (COMMUNIA)

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:00 Session 2: Balancing Enforcement & Usage Rights in Practice – Protecting legal forms of expression from automated blocking decisions by online platforms is not just a task for the national legislators when transposing Article 17, but also a question of implementation of those provisions by regulators and courts. Who is going to ensure that filtering systems will leave legal uses of copyright-protected works unaffected in practice? How can the balance of competing rights be enforced in cross-border situations? How does the ban on general monitoring obligations as interpreted by the CJEU constrain the content moderation obligations of platforms – in the context of Article 17, but also when applied to other types of illegal content? Will the Digital Services Act improve users’ access to effective remedies against over-blocking?

• Natasha Mangal (University of Strasbourg): Regulating Creativity Online: Proposal for an EU Copyright Institution.
• Daniel Holznagel (academia): Don’t touch the ceiling – Why we should not narrow the EU no-monitoring-obligation-rules.
• Martin Husovec (London School of Economics): Mandatory Filtering Does Not Always Violate Freedom of Expression: Lessons from Poland v Council and European Parliament.
• Moderator: Felix Reda (GFF – Society for Civil Rights)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session 3: Beyond the Judgment: The Future of Freedom of Expression – In its ruling, the CJEU was of the view that the procedural safeguards present in Article 17 protect the ‘essence’ of the right to freedom of expression of the users of online sharing platforms. But many argue that filtering mechanisms can still pose real risks to fundamental freedoms and to the flourishing of parodies, caricatures and pastiche. Is the CJEU classical approach to proportionality balancing apt in a filtered online environment? Do we need a new conceptualisation of the ‘essence’ of fundamental rights? Can the case law from the CJEU and the European Court of Human Rights on freedom of expression offer avenues to better the future of parodic uses? Finally, are we moving towards a European Right to Remix?

• Kevin O’Sullivan (Dublin City University): A new conceptualisation of the ‘essence’ of fundamental rights.
• Sabine Jacques (University of East Anglia, Law School): A two-tier system for freedom of expression.
• Till Kreutzer (iRights.Law): Towards a European Right to Remix (?) – On the new Pastiche exception in the German Copyright Act.
• Moderator: Teresa Nobre (COMMUNIA)

17:00-19:00 Reception hosted by COMMUNIA

*All times are indicated in CEST.

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The CJEU decision on Article 17 of the copyright directive has defined a framework for the use of automated content moderation. The Court considers filtering obligations compatible with the right to freedom of expression and information as long as they are limited to use cases that allow for a robust automated distinction between legal and illegal content. In the context of Article 17, upload filters may therefore only be used by online platforms to block manifest infringements of copyright law. The Court leaves it up to the Member States to ensure that legal uses remain unaffected by their national transpositions of Article 17.

The judgment raises a host of important questions for the enforcement of copyright law as well as for the compatibility of upload filters with fundamental rights even beyond copyright law. To discuss these consequences, COMMUNIA and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte are jointly hosting the Filtered Futures conference on Monday, September 19th, at Robert-Bosch-Stiftung in Berlin. Please see below for the preliminary conference programme. A more detailed version of the programme with session descriptions will follow in early September.

Registrations for attending the conference in person are now open. Please consider that participation is limited. Registrations will be considered on a first come, first serve basis.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:

08:45-09:15 Registration

09:15-09:45 Opening remarks (Felix Reda, GFF)

09:45-10:00 Coffee break

10:00-12:00 Session 1: Fragmentation or Harmonization? Impact of the Judgment on National Implementations (Christina Angelopoulous, Jasmin Brieske, Finn Hümmer, Bernd Justin Jütte. Chair: Paul Keller, COMMUNIA)

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00 Session 2: Balancing Copyright & Usage Rights in Practice (Daniel Holznagel, Martin Husovec, Natasha Mangal. Chair: Felix Reda, GFF)

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Session 3: Beyond filters: Impacts of the Judgment on Freedom of Expression (Sabine Jacques, Till Kreutzer, Kevin O’Sullivan. Chair: Teresa Nobre, COMMUNIA)

17:00-19:00 COMMUNIA Reception

Participation is free of charge and a light lunch will be served.

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The event was kicked-off by COMMUNIA president Paul Keller, who in his opening remarks (reproduced in full at the end of this post) argued for the need to put discussion about copyright policy back on the agenda of the EU legislator: three years after the adoption of the DSM directive, it is clear that the EU copyright framework remains a fragmented mess that does not adequately address the needs of users and creators in an increasingly complex digital environment. Paul Keller stressed that COMMUNIA hopes that the new set of policy recommendations will contribute to an open and respectful debate with policy makers and stakeholders from across the copyright policy spectrum about how we can work towards a more just and open EU copyright system that embraces the opportunities offered by digital transformation for users and creators alike.

In a first reaction, MEP Tiemo Wölken (S&D) welcomed COMMUNIA’s ambition and highlighted the importance of improving the EU copyright framework in the context of ambitions to strengthen the digital public sphere in Europe. See here for a recording of his intervention.

His intervention was followed by the presentation of the new policy recommendations by Paul Keller and Teresa Nobre. In her remarks, Teresa highlighted the evolution of the recommendations to more explicitly address the concerns of both users and creators (instead of users’ rights, the new recommendations focus on usage rights) and the increasing importance of (procedural) safeguards against copyright abuse. Paul and Teresa then walked the audience through the 20 individual recommendations:

The presentation of the recommendations was followed by a reaction from Prof. Séverine Dusollier, who echoed the overall need to reform the EU copyright framework and welcomed the level of ambition contained in the new recommendations. See here for a recording of her reaction.

Opening remarks by Paul Keller

So why are we assembled here today and why are we launching a set of 20 policy recommendations for improving the EU copyright framework? Isn’t copyright policy a discussion that was wrapped up during the last Commission’s mandate? With the adoption of the DSM directive that followed almost three years of debate of almost unrivalled intensity?

We would argue otherwise. Yes, in the end the EU legislator managed to adopt a compromise. And yes, even the most controversial provisions of the DSM directive have been upheld by the Court of Justice. But that does not mean that the EU copyright framework is perfect or that it is fit for purpose. Looking back from a distance, the DSM directive has made the EU copyright landscape even more messy than before.

So far only 14 of the 27 EU member states have fully implemented the directive. And after last month’s decision by the CJEU it is very questionable if most of these implementations meet the Court’s requirements for fundamental rights compliance.

And while the DSM directive has harmonised (to some degree) some important aspects of the EU copyright framework — the protection of the public domain status of reproductions of public domain works, the new mandatory exceptions for education, text and data mining, and preservation of works held by cultural heritage institutions come to mind, the rules for access to out of commerce works and the rules strengthening the contractual position of authors and creator come to mind, important parts of the EU copyright framework are still very much fragmented.

While the implementation of the DSM directive would have been an opportunity for the Member States to update other parts of their copyright systems as well, national lawmakers have largely shied away from this opportunity. Only in very few cases have national legislators decided to reform national legislation in order to better align it with the objective of increasing access to knowledge and culture or to further harmonise rules across member states.

Exceptions and limitations that protect fundamental rights exist in some member states but not in others. Procedural safeguards to enforce usage rights are missing in action in most member states and the copyright framework still constrains too many activities that it should enable — for example e-lending.

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This all takes place against a background of a substantial strengthening of usage rights, both through recent CJEU case law but also through the language of the final article 17 compromise that helped the DSM directive across the finish line. As we have discovered over the last three years, Article 17 does contain in itself a number of elements that substantially strengthen the rights of platform users.

After the amount of opposition against Article 17 from us and many others this feels somewhat counter-intuitive, but who would have thought that what was proposed by the Commission in 2016 as an attempt to curtail the liability privileges of large online platforms would become a vehicle for enshrining the concept of exceptions and limitations to copyright as users rights into the EU framework and at the same time harmonise the so far optional exceptions covering citation, caricature, pastiche and parody through the back door?

But as last month’s CJEU ruling also makes it clear, these conceptual changes will only become meaningful if the legislators implement accessible procedural safeguards for all types of platform users, be they consumers or creators.

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So with all of this in mind we think that it is high time to put copyright policy back on the agenda. The work is far from done and with important work on the big digital projects of this legislative period almost completed we think that it is time to start thinking about the future evolution of the EU copyright framework and the role of Europe in global discussions about copyright, so that the challenges and opportunities can be reflected in the agenda of the next European Commission.

By presenting our recommendations today we want to open the debate and give it direction. These recommendations will guide our work over the next decade and if our previous set of recommendations — which guided our work over the past 10 years is any indication — then we should see at least some of them becoming legislative reality by the end of Europe’s digital decade.

By launching the recommendations here today we hope to open a dialogue with policy makers and stakeholders from across the copyright policy spectrum and we hope that these policy recommendations can contribute to an open and respectful debate about how we can work towards a more just and open EU copyright system that embraces the opportunities offered by the digital transformation for users and creators alike.

We are really looking forward to working with all of you on making these recommendations happen over the next couple of years!

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Our new policy recommendations address key policy opportunities for EU lawmakers to expand the Public Domain, increase access to and re-use of culture and knowledge and leverage the power of the digital transformation for society.

The policy recommendations will supersede the 14 existing policy recommendations that have guided our work in the past decade and have made a real contribution to the evolution of the EU copyright framework. On the 31st we will discuss the new policy recommendations with lawmakers, activists and academics. For this, we will be joined by MEP Tiemo Wölken and Professor Severine Dusollier (SciencePo).

After the launch of the recommendations (and of our new website), there will be a networking reception with the ability to exchange views with the COMMUNIA core team.

The event is open to everyone subject to registration here. We kindly ask you to confirm your attendance by Friday, May 27th. In case the max. number of registrations is reached, participants will be confirmed on a first-registered, first-served basis.

We are looking forward to toasting to the next decade with you!

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Less than a year ago, we celebrated COMMUNIA’s 10th anniversary, assessing how its foundational 14 policy recommendations contributed to the expansion of the public domain during the 2011-2021 decade. At that time, we also announced that we would update our policy recommendations for the decade to come.

We have consulted with many copyright experts and key stakeholders over the past months to identify new priorities for the decade to come. That process has now come to an end and we are looking forward to presenting the results publicly, in an in-person event that will bring together EU policymakers and academics. The discussion will be followed by an apéro reception at the venue.

The event is open to everyone subject to registration here. We kindly ask you to confirm your attendance by Friday, May 27th. In case the max. number of registrations is reached, participants will be confirmed on a first-registered, first-served basis.

We are looking forward to toasting to the next decade with you!

COMMUNIA

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As in previous years COMMUNIA will contribute to a number of sessions at the summit which has turned into one of the prime venues for driving the discussion about global copyright reform forwards. Below we have compiled a list of sessions that are particularly relevant to our area(s) of interest and that will see participation from COMMUNIA members: 

The debate around policies and advocacy promoting the Commons will be at the heart of several discussions, including a get together of the Creative Commons Copyright Platform on Monday at 1430 CEST. The CC Platforms Working Group will host a session on online platforms’ copyright liability on Monday at 1330 CEST; CC’s General Counsel Sarah Pearson will host a session on  the phenomenon of aggressive enforcement of CC licenses with Kat Walsh – CC OpenGLAM Director – on Tuesday at 2030 CEST and Brigitte Vézina – CC Director of Policy, Open Culture and GLAM – will explore how to develop an attribution standard for public domain GLAM materials on Tuesday at 1500 CEST. 

There will be space for a closer look at copyright reforms around the globe, with Paul Keller (Open Future) and Felix Reda (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte) reporting on achievements in securing meaningful protection for public domain and the commons in the German implementation of the CDSM Directive on Tuesday at 1400 CEST; and Dimi Dimitrov (Wikimedia DE) outlining the situation of EU Policy & the Commons with Anna Mazgal (Wikimedia DE) on Thursday at 13:00.

On Thursday at 2230 CEST Jennifer Zerkee (Simon Fraser University) and Stephanie Savage (University of British Columbia) will review the Canadian Copyright Act, and Lisa Macklem (University of Western Ontario) will showcase the influence of US lobbyists in South Africa and Canada on Friday at 1930 CEST. 

On Thursday at 1600 CEST Maja Bogataj (Intellectual Property Institute) will make a comparative analysis of public engagement strategies adopted by different organizations worldwide when communicating copyright reform issues and on Friday at 1330 CEST Wikimedia DE will report on the successful partnerships with different institutions to make their knowledge open and accessible.

The problematic relation between copyright and Research & Education will be discussed in a panel discussion with Teresa Nobre on Wednesday at 2130 CEST. COMMUNIA’s copyright for education team will present the survey about open remote education during the pandemic on Thursday at 1300 CEST. A special focus on how international policy could be reformed to better meet the needs of modern research and education will be given on Wednesday at 0530 CEST by Justus Dreyling (Wikimedia DE).

The challenges raised by  the use of CC licensed material for AI training will be examined  by Alek Tarkowski (Open Future), Anna Mazgal, Adam Harvey, Ben Macaskill (Flickr) and Valentina Pavel (Ada Lovelace Institute) when introducing the AI_Commons project on Wednesday at 1330 CEST. Anna and Alek will also investigate the tie between mechanisms of controls of free expression and the logic of monetization on Thursday at 1200 CEST.

The Summit will also provide a space for analysis of the challenges and opportunities for the Open Movement 20 years after its emergence: on Monday at 2200 CEST, Jennie Rose Halperin (Library Futures), Kaitlin Thaney (Invest in Open) and Alek Tarkowski will facilitate a conversation and support a community of practice. This will be followed by a session on the Paradox of Open with Paul Keller, Alek Tarkowski, Nicole Ebber (Wikimedia DE) and Derek Slater (Google) on Wednesday at 1600 CEST. On Thursday at Anna Mazgal,  Alek Tarkowski, will continue this thread with a session on Openess and the Crisis of Control over Creative Freedom. 

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To kick off the festivities, we reviewed the 14 policy recommendations that COMMUNIA issued 10 years ago to see what happened to them over the past decade (from 00:03 to 00:21 in the recording). As it turns out a fair number of them have been at least partially – or  even fully – implemented, in many cases thanks to advocacy work that we and our partners have done 

For the second part of the event, we brought together three friends from academia who have influenced our work in important ways to reflect on COMMUNIA’s work. 

First, Prof. Juan Carlos de Martin (Politecnico di Torino and founding father of the COMMUNIA project) reflected on what makes COMMUNIA a unique community which started 15 years ago as an EU-funded network and that continues the importance of public funding for communities advocating for the public interest to this day.

His intervention was followed by Prof. Bernt Hugenholtz (University of Amsterdam) who stressed that public interest copyright advocacy remains needed for the decade to come. In particular, he highlighted the need to ensure copyright exemptions for all public works and databases in the EU.

Finally, Prof. Pamela Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley) reminded the audience of the urgency of reviving the general interest in the public domain, which sometimes feels detached from society. In this context, she encouraged us to revive the interest for flexible exceptions to copyright in Europe.

After these contributions, Marco Giorello, the long-time Head of the European Commission’s Copyright Unit shared his thoughts on the future of European copyright policy (from 00:47 to 01:00 in the recording). As part of his intervention, he pointed out that the struggles connected to Article 17 of the DSM Directive are only the beginning of a much larger challenge to redefine the relationship between fundamental rights and automated copyright enforcement.

The event concluded with a panel discussion on the future of the EU copyright policy (from 01:01 in the recording). Catherine Stihler (Creative Commons) expressed hope for a more unified civic voice defending the Public Domain as we’re entering the next policy cycle (from 01:02 to 01:06 in the recording). Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (Centre Internet et Société CIS-CNRS), argued that strategic litigation is a crucial form of copyright advocacy, an area in which we haven just taken first steps (from 01:07 to 01:15 in the recording). Finally, Felix Reda (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte) highlighted the need for public copyright registration systems to ensure the protection of the public domain, users rights and to ensure fairer remuneration flows in the online environment (from 01:17 to 01:24 in the recording).

We are grateful to all the speakers for their contributions and to everyone who celebrated our birthday with us. The discussion showed that our efforts to promote the public domain have borne fruit, yet we still have a long way to go. The event has shed a light on some of the policy challenges on which we should focus in the upcoming decade.

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Communia’s bread and butter over the last several years has been advocating for a progressive copyright reform in Europe that will protect users rights and improve the legal situation for both creators and institutions that want to share in the digital age.

After 30 months of working on the reform package, at the end of March the European Parliament voted in favor of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Last week the EU council approved it as well, sealing the deal. Soon the directive will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. From the date of publication, the Member States of the EU will have two years to implement the provisions contained in the directive into their national laws.

As civil society organisations who’ve been working on the copyright directive re-group to adjust for the opportunities and requirements of the transposition phase at the Member State level, the Creative Commons Summit can provide a timely and useful venue to discuss how CC members and advocates in Europe could work together to ensure that the national implementations do the least harm to user rights and maximise the potential benefits for the commons. There are several sessions that will explore this and related topics around supporting productive copyright reforms.

Here’s a quick preview of some of the sessions we’re interested in, contributing to, or helping lead. Click through for more information, and if you’ll be in Lisbon please join us at these events.

Copyright reform related sessions

How to win the (c) wars?

Thursday, May 9, 9:00am – 10:55am

Despite compelling evidence on the overwhelming evidence supporting fair and flexible copyright exceptions, fair use or its equivalent is politically toxic to many governments. What can we learn from recent failures/obstacles? What do we need to do better?

The State of Copyright Filtering

Thursday, May 9, 12:30pm – 1:25pm

The first part of the session will be an overview of recent policy proposals around the world that seek to mandate online intermediaries to filter content for copyright infringement. The second will be a hands-on look at the filtering systems currently deployed by major web platforms. In understanding the limitations of these tools, we can improve the debate around their use, particularly as lawmakers consider proposals to require web platforms to filter.

Communicating Copyright and Coalition Building – Public Education and Advocacy

Thursday, May 9, 12:30pm – 1:25pm

Copyright law is central to three activities for CC advocates: (1) explaining the function of the licenses themselves and (2) advocating for laws and policies that support the creation of openly licensed materials, and (3) arguing for copyright flexibilities and copyright law reform. However, copyright education and policy advocacy can seem technical and separate from many users and creators core interests. This workshop brings together CC members who have worked to build coalitions around copyright or open policy advocacy topics and discuss successes and failures in public copyright education.

Open Business and the EU copyright reform

Thursday, May 9, 2:00pm – 2:55pm

With the EU copyright reform, many of the thriving businesses that have emerged in Europe over the past 20 years might be negatively affected and many may not even survive. It is now crucial to keep the discussion active and bring these business together so they understand the power they still have to (help) revert these recent political decisions and continue to promote a more open and sustainable business culture, more aligned with the technological progress and social challenges we are facing today (namely, in terms of labor).

The Exceptions Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization

Friday, May 10, 1:30pm – 2:25pm

Panel members will include current participants in the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. We will discuss the current plans for work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights – including regional meetings in Asia, Africa and Latin America — and how chapters can get involved.

The European Copyright Directive: Past, Present, Future

Saturday, May 11, 10:00am – 11:55am

The opening lecture (“5 Years of EU Copyright Reform – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”) will trace the copyright reform process back from its origins in 2014 until its conclusion earlier this year and evaluate the impact of the various measures adopted. It will evaluate where we have made progress, were we have suffered defeats and why we have ended up where we have ended up. This session draws on the experiences of COMMUNIA’s five year long involvement in the copyright reform process. In the second part representatives from organisations promoting access to knowledge that have been closely engaged in the European copyright reform over the past years will discuss ways to positively influence the national implementations of the directive. This workshop will provide an opportunity for anyone interested in working on the implementation on the national levels to join this effort and to discuss strategy and the opportunities offered by the implementation on the national level.

Developing Projects for the Copyright Reform Platform

Saturday, May 11, 2:30pm – 4:25pm

At previous summits we’ve worked on sharing information about copyright reform opportunities, wrote the rationale for the platform, and updated our goals and objectives with broad input from the community. This year we’d like to focus on bringing people together to dig into the development of collaborative projects in service of the platform goals and objectives.

Other sessions of interest!

Internet is for the people

Saturday, May 11, 4:30pm – 5:25pm

Tired of apocalyptic scenarios and Black Mirror episodes? Then join us to work backwards from imagining better futures, in which internet is for the people. Let’s kick things off with stating the futures we want and then we will plan ways of getting there. In order to have time for in-depth discussions we will brainstorm, speculate and sketch ideas in small groups. There will be several opportunities to share back and discuss with the whole group.

Strategies for defending the commons and the users

Saturday, May 11, 2:30pm – 3:55pm

The roundtable will discuss the possibility of developing a framework for digital policies that is based around such concepts as the commons, decentralisation, self-determination and public provision of goods.  As a starting point, we will take the experience of our project “Reframe Digital Europe”, in which we have designed such a framework for digital policymaking in Europe. We believe that an alternative, high-level frame is needed to move us away from the market orthodoxy that dominates much of policy debates – not just in Europe, but all over the world.

One size fits no one. Building a strategy for advocacy in a global movement

Saturday, May 11, 4:30pm – 5:25pm

In July 2018, Wikimedia movement launched 9 working groups that have been tasked with developing a strategy for the next 12 years. Advocacy is probably one of the topics that go the most beyond the movement itself and that touch on achieving change benefitting literally everyone. But is is possible to have a strategy that encompasses contexts that are open to citizen voice and those that are not? Can the variety of political and non-political methods form a cohesive tactics? Are we ready to charge free knowledge with the potential to change the world?

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