COMMUNIA Association - Netherlands

Eurovision DSM Contest: the once in a decade copyright reform contest

June 10, 2021

by Teresa Nobre

This Monday, June 7, was the last official day for EU Member States to implement the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. To mark the date we launched the “Eurovision DSM contest” website. The website provides a playful overview of the implementation of the new Copyright Directive across the EU, and Member States […]

Implementation update: French Parliament gives carte blanche, while the Netherlands correct course.

October 8, 2020

by COMMUNIA Association

Back in January of this year, we noted how both the Netherlands and France (at that point the only Member States that had presented proposals to implement Article 17) had proposed selective implementations of Article 17 that ignored crucial user rights safeguards. A lot has happened since January, but yesterday both Member States took further […]

Article 17: Both French and Dutch implementation proposals lack key user rights safeguards

January 10, 2020

by COMMUNIA Association

As of January 2020 there are two Member States that have published legislative proposals for the implementation of Article 17 CDSM. In July the Netherlands published a proposal for an implementation law for public consultation that implemented all provisions of the CDSM directive. Then, in early December, France published the proposal for a project for […]

The Netherlands leads way with implementation of the new educational exception

July 17, 2019

by Alek Tarkowski

Just one month after the new Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive went into force, the Dutch government has shared their proposal for its implementation, through an amendment of their existing copyright law. The proposal is currently in a public consultation phase. We would like to provide here an overview of the Dutch proposal […]

Research: Orphan Works Directive does not work for mass digitisation

February 16, 2016

by Maarten Zeinstra

In 2012 the European Parliament adopted the Directive on ‘certain permitted uses of orphan works by cultural heritage institutions’. The directive intends to fill the gap between the mission of cultural heritage institutions to share cultural works to citizens, and the complex, costly, and sometimes impossible task of locating rightsholders to get permission for online […]

What the diary of Anne Frank can tell us about Text and Data mining

January 8, 2016

by Paul Keller

Recently, everybody has been busy discussing the question of whether the Diary of Anne Frank will enter (or by now, has entered) the public domain on January 1st this year (Answer: It’s complicated). Surprisingly, the discussions surrounding the copyright in Anne Frank’s writings may shed some light on another contentious copyright policy issue: text and […]