COMMUNIA

The Communia Association works to strengthen the public domain.

Website:: https://communia-association.org

Last Notes

2026-07-06 09:39:20 UTC

📢 COMMUNIA, together with 35 co-signing organisations, has published an open letter urging MEPs to protect the use of open standard licences for public sector information in the Digital Omnibus.
✉️Read the open letter and share it with your representative!
https://communia-association.org/2026/07/06/open-letter-protect-open-standard-licences-for-public-sector-information/

2026-05-12 09:08:06 UTC

Missed our Salon on the DSM review last week or would like to rewatch? 👀
Good news! The recording is now available! 🎥
Watch it on our website: https://communia-association.org/2026/05/11/video-recording-of-communia-salon-the-dsm-review/
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2026-05-07 11:02:18 UTC

🚨 Today, we are releasing The Post-DSM Copyright Report by Teresa Nobre. 🚨
The report
▶️ examines how Member States implemented key user rights provisions of the Directive;
▶️ reveals best practices;
▶️ also shows that uneven implementation remains an issue.
https://communia-association.org/2026/05/07/the-post-dsm-copyright-report-new-publication/
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2026-01-28 15:29:47 UTC

🚨 The JURI Committee has adopted the INI report on copyright & generative AI, but the outcome still leaves legal uncertainty for researchers and public-interest AI developers.
We’re particularly concerned about overly broad language on press & news media content that could exclude it from TDM exceptions.
The plenary vote is in March. MEPs need to fix these issues in the meantime.
👉 Full analysis (by [@3_justus](https://eupolicy.social/@3_justus ) and Leander Nielbock):
https://communia-association.org/2026/01/28/ini-on-copyright-and-generative-ai-after-the-vote/

2025-12-05 09:48:22 UTC

🚏Next stop: Our comments on the Digital Omnibus
While many have rightfully criticised the planned changes to the data protection regime - we want to focus on a part of the proposal that spells danger to open projects like @npub1hdk…eh5e
Our takes by [@3_justus](https://eupolicy.social/@3_justus ): https://communia-association.org/2025/12/05/the-digital-omnibus-and-open-data-risks-for-open-projects/

2025-10-22 08:11:49 UTC

Article 8 of the DSM Directive held a great promise:
The path towards a shared collective memory - a vast decentralised digital library and archive.
Yet clearly, this hasn't materialised.
What went wrong? And more importantly, how can we fix it?
Find out in our guest blog post by Maarten Zeinstra: https://communia-association.org/2025/10/21/the-failure-of-article-8-dsm/