Communia has launched a new website!
Today, Communia is celebrating its 10th anniversary. On this occasion, Communia launched a new website, which presents the implementation of 14 policy recommendations that were issued upon the founding of Communia.
These policy recommendations became the foundation of guiding their advocacy in the last decade. Some of them have been implemented – fully or partially. Yet many remain unfulfilled, meaning that laws don’t properly support the public domain and secure user rights.
With launching its new website, Communia is pointing out how highly relevant the recommendation is, even after a decade – and how it continues to define their work on public domain advocacy.
The French government has a new plan for Europe that could help the EU compete with the US tech giants: the digital commons.
The International Association of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), PAC Centre for digital preservation, hosted at the National Library of Poland is holding a series of 10 webinars on basic understanding of digitisation projects.
Communia, a non-governmental organisation that advocates for policies that expand the public domain and increase access to and reuse of culture and knowledge, issued twenty new copyright policy recommendations for the next decade.
The DSM Directive entered into force in June 2019 and the deadline for implementation expired on 7 June 2021. On 23 June 2021, the Commission launched multiple infringement procedures and sent letters of formal notice to Slovenia and 22 other Member States that had failed to notify it of the full transposition of the Directive. Slovenia remains among the 14 Member States against which the Commission is continuing the infringement procedure. On 19 May 2022, the Commission sent reasoned opinions to Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, France, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden.