Communia celebrates 10th annniversary!
10th anniversary of Communia with distinguished guests – key players and observers of the EU copyright policy arena reflecting on the development of the EU copyright framework & assessing Communia’s efforts to celebrate the Anniversary! Join us!
The event will kick off by reviewing of how 14 policy recommendations have fared since we have adopted them in 2011. It will host guest speakrs:
– Professor Juan Carlos de Martin (COMMUNIA founder and Politecnico di Torino),
– Professor Bernt Hugenholtz (University of Amsterdam) and
– Professor Pamela Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley), who will present reflections on our work and the evolution of the EU copyright framework in the past decade.
Afterwards:
– Marco Giorello (Head of the Copyright Unit of the European Commission) will share some reflections on the evolving EU Copyright Policy Landscape.
– a panel discussion on the future of EU copyright policy between Catherine Stihler (CEO Creative Commons), Julia Reda (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte and former MEP) and Melanie Dulong (Centre Internet et Société CIS-CNRS).
Join us on the following link. Welcome!
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