Communia’s policy recommendations identify possibilities for reshaping copyright in ways that expand the public domain and strengthen the rights of users and all types of cultural creators. They envision a copyright framework that maximises societal benefits by embracing the possibilities for wider access to knowledge and culture in an increasingly digitised environment.
The policy recommendations focus on four areas: measures to defend and expand the public domain, measures that protect and promote usage rights, measures to empower creators and their audiences and measures that create safeguards against copyright abuse. Together with the Public Domain Manifesto they guide Communia’s advocacy work.
COMMUNIA’s recommendations have been written with a European audience in mind and thus focus on improvements to the EU copyright legislation. Most of the underlying objectives and ideas will also apply in other contexts, however.
