Sausages often involve secret ingredients—and for your own peace of mind it may be better not to know exactly how they’re made🌭INI reports can feel the same way!

🗳️After months of negotiations, the European Parliament has adopted the Voss report on #AI and #copyright.

The final text includes a few improvements, but the overall outcome remains disappointing:
🔸Problematic provisions on press publishers’ content
🔸An overall lack of coherence

🔽 Our reaction
https://communia-association.org/2026/03/10/parliament-adopts-ini-report-on-ai-and-copyright-no-clear-path-forward/

This week, we submitted our response to public consultation on the European Research Area (ERA) Act!

The consultation remains open until 23 January 2026 — make your voice heard, too! 📢

Our response:
https://communia-association.org/2026/01/13/submission-to-the-open-consultation-on-the-era-act/

Link to the questionnaire:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14608-European-Research-Area-ERA-Act/public-consultation_en

🚏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 @wikimediafoundation

Our takes by @3_justus: https://communia-association.org/2025/12/05/the-digital-omnibus-and-open-data-risks-for-open-projects/

Why do European museums shy away from exhausting the possibilities available under the copyright framework?

Find out in our new study, prepared by
@centrumcyfrowe.bsky.social:

📃 Navigating Uncertainty: Legal Risk Awareness and Management in European Museums

🧐Read it on our blog: https://communia-association.org/publication/navigating-uncertainty/

Last week, our Policy Director @3_justus joined @the_info_labs to talk about the upcoming #ERA Act!

We call for a secondary publication right for publicly funded research and a mandatory, open and flexible exception for research!

🎧https://share.transistor.fm/s/896317d7
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7-sf2OvnFU

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/

Our September newsletter is out, featuring:
🔸 Policy paper for a general scientific research exception
🔸 Our response to the ERA Act consultation
🔸 Our upcoming salon on the right to e-lend

Read now 🧐: https://mailchi.mp/communia-association/communia-newsletter-september

Sign up ✍️: eepurl.com/g8TTvT

Earlier this month we hosted our Salon on the French proposal to tax second-hand books🍿

If you were unable to make it or would like to rewatch, the recording is now available!
https://communia-association.org/2025/06/18/video-recording-cashing-in-twice/