COMMUNIA Association

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 […]

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 […]

The surge of generative artificial intelligence has gone alongside a renewed interest in questions about the relationship between machine learning and copyright law. In our newly published policy paper #15 entitled “Using copyrighted works for teaching the machine” (also available as a PDF file), we are looking at the input side of the equation within the […]

COMMUNIA is looking for a Policy Advisor who is passionate about the Public Domain and dedicated to enabling access to culture and knowledge. We offer you an opportunity to join our advocacy efforts to advance cutting-edge copyright reform and work with a network of activists, researchers, and other practitioners in Europe and the United States. […]

COMMUNIA is part of a group of civil society organizations from all around the globe that promotes access to, and use of, knowledge, the Access to Knowledge or A2K Coalition. COMMUNIA has been a co-initiator of the A2K Coalition. Today, the A2K Coalition is launching its website with demands for education, research and cultural heritage. […]

Last October, COMMUNIA was invited by the European Commission to a stakeholder dialogue to improve cross border access to audiovisual (AV) content. As part of the stakeholder dialogue, the European Commission organised a series of three meetings during which it invited stakeholders (predominantly organisations representing various parts of the audiovisual media sector) to agree on […]