Copyright/Documentation

Press Articles

• Articles in English
• Articles en français
• Artikels in nederlands

Scientific Papers

• Disappearing Content, Mark A. Lemley, 19/10/2020
  • One of the great advantages of digital content has been that for the last forty years, people have had access to whatever content they want whenever they wanted it. That is starting to change. We’re moving backwards. Content is disappearing – not just becoming available only in limited times or circumstances, but becoming entirely unavailable.

Legislative Texts

• The complete text of ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, as published by the EU

Blog Articles

• 7 juin 2013 : Le partage est un droit culturel, pas un échec du marché
  • Blog de Philippe Aigrain : Une série sans fin de projets législatifs, de politiques contractuelles et d’accords commerciaux ou traités continue à essayer d’éradiquer ou d’empêcher le partage non marchand d’œuvres numériques. De nouvelles stratégies misent sur les incitations et les menaces pour que les intermédiaires techniques fassent la police de l’internet et protègent les modèles commerciaux fondés sur la rareté de la concurrence de l’abondance. Tout serait donc inchangé ? Et bien non.

Videos

• Peertube channel of PhD in Law and Internet & ethics specialist Philoxime (in French)
  • Directive Droit d'auteur et filtrage (ARTICLE 13 / 17)
  • Pourquoi la propriété intellectuelle ? Locke et le droit naturel
• Why Copyright Law STEALS From Us All, video essay by Youtuber/Composer David Bruce, 16/04/2019

Actors

• COMMUNIA is an international association incorporated under Belgian law that advocates for policies that expand the Public Domain and increase access to and reuse of culture and knowledge. It acts as a network of like-minded activists, researchers and practitioners based in Europe and the United States who seek to limit the scope of exclusive copyright to sensible proportions that do not place unnecessary restrictions on access and use.

Other Documentation

• Save the link : Censoring links breaks the Internet
• Save Code Share : Current (2018) EU Copyright Review threatens Free and Open Source Software.
• Policy Paper #15 on using copyrighted works for teaching the machine in the context of the European Union (Communia, 2023)