Week 51/2021

• Open Future: Will financialization of the music industry kill the public domain? [959 words]

Week 50/2021

• Consultation draft of the COMMUNIA new policy recommendations [1522 words]

Week 49/2021

• Open Future: Five things I know about Data Spaces [1122 words]
• Kluwer Copyright Blog: YouTube Copyright Transparency Report: Overblocking is real [1457 words]
• 3rd meeting of the stakholder dialogue on access to and availability of audiovisual content across the EU [984km]

Week 48/2021

• Europeana Foundation Advisory Board meeting [0km]
• Advisory Council meeting of the Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab [0km]
• Exit Platforms Workshop: How to break down the walled gardens – an interconnected strategy for a democratic digital space [0km]
• Hello world: New Open Future website

Week 47/2021

• COMMUNIA new policy objectives strategy retreat [3926km]

Week 46/2021

• ECF x SDEPS Policy Forum: Public conversation: How can EU policy foster digital European public spaces? [402 km]
• Juridisch PAO Leiden - Actualiteiten Auteursrecht 2021: Art. 17 CDSM implementation - Are we there yet? [72km]
• myData Community meeting Amsterdam: A closer look at data governance and the European data strategy: the Data Governance Act & the Data Act with Francesco Vogelezang [10km]
• The Progressive post: Regulate, but build too: for a European digital sphere with Alek Tarkowski [1384 words]

Week 45/2021

• 1st meeting of the stakholder dialogue on access to and availability of audiovisual content across the EU [402km]
• 2nd round of the stakholder dialogue on the implementation of the Out-of-commerce Works mechanism hosted by the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science (audiovisual works) [0km]
• Europeana 2021 conference: Panel discussion on the common European data space for cultural heritage [0km]

Week 44/2021

• Open Future Foundation board meeting [12km]
• 2nd round of the stakholder dialogue on the implementation of the Out-of-commerce Works mechanism hosted by the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science (print and visual works) [0km]

Week 43/2021

• COMMUNIA new policy objectives: Cultural heritage institution online input session [0km]
• CommonsDB white-paper: Meeting with PEX [581km]
• Meeting with the European Commission copyright unit [581km]

Week 42/2021

🏖📚 interrupted by a High Level Roundtable on Access to AV content with Commissioner Thierry Breton [891 words, 0km]

Week 41/2021

• SDEPS coalition presentation at the kick-off session for the ‘European exit strategy, from private platforms to a common digital space’ project [0km]
• COMMUNIA website: Our response to the new Austrian copyright implementation proposal [1187 words]
• Stellungnahme zum Entwurf eines Bundesgesetzes, mit dem das Urheberrechtsgesetz, das Verwertungsgesellschaften gesetz 2016 und das KommAustria-Gesetz geändert werden with epicenter.works, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, Wikimedia, Creative Commons Austria and the Cultural Broadcasting Archive [307 words]

Week 40/2021

• ORF Public Value Tag - Vom Broadcaster zum Qualitätsnetzwerk: Presenting the Shared Digital European Public Space coalition [1726km]

Week 39/2021

• NUK seminar on the impact of the DSM Directive on copyright law in the EU and Slovenia: Assessing the impact of the CDSM directive: A win for the open movement? [0km]
• COMMUINIA new policy objectives workshop Berlin [638km]
• Preprint: Digital Public Space – A missing policy frame for shaping Europe’s digital future [7941 words]
• Open Future Sessions S02E01: Conversation with Brewster Kahle [0km]

Week 38/2021

• COMMUINIA new policy objectives workshop Amsterdam [6km]
• Creative Commons Global Summit: The Paradox of Open [0km]
• Creative Commons Global Summit: Protecting Open Licenses in the EU Copyright Reform [0km]
• White-paper: Proposal to leverage Article 17 to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works [3302 words]

Week 37/2021

• AI4Media workshop on Euroepan AI vision & Policy: Regulating AI and the cultural commons [0km]
• Open Future: The ‘Path to the Digital Decade’ needs a better destination [857 words]

Week 36/2021

• Open Future strategy meeting [1276km]

Week 35/2021

• Open Future response to the European Commmission’s public consultation on a set of European Digital Principles [1611 words]
• Open Future/COMMUNIA response to the European Commmission’s public consultation on the proposed Data Act [963 words]
• Online denksessie “Wat zijn voor Nederland de argumenten vóór en tegen een wettelijke verplichting voor OTT-diensten om communicatie te ontsleutelen voor opsporings- en veiligheidsdiensten?” [0km]

Weeks 31-33/2021

🏖🏔📚: The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene, When the Sparrow Falls, Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future, Hummingbird Salamander

Week 30/2021

• Open Future: European Parliament misses the opportunity to build the Data Commons [767 words]

Week 29/2021

• COMMUNIA salon on Article 17 - Unpacking the AG Opinion in case C-401/19 [video 0km]

Week 28/2021

• EDRi-gram: The Data Governance Act – between undermining the GDPR and building a Data Commons [599 words]
• Leiden Law Lunch: Uploadfilter en uitingsvrijheid [0km]

Week 27/2021

• InDICEs advisory board meeting [0km]
• Shared Digital Europe/Open Future: Introducing SDEPS - Shared Digital European Public Sphere [890 words]

Week 26/2021

• EuroDIG 2021 workshop on Copyright – Implementation of the EU directive [0km]
• European Parliament round table on the transposition of the EU Copyright Directive: understanding the best efforts clause [0km]
• Europeana Advisory Board meeting [0km]

Week 25/2021

• Open Future policy brief: The Data Governance Act: Five Opportunities for the Data Commons [2544 words]

Week 24/2021

• 🎂 COMMUNIA 10 year anniversary event 🥳: Review of a decade of Copyright policy advocacy in Europe [video 0km]
• New website: Assessing the impact of the 2011 COMMUNIA policy recommendations. [971 words]

Week 23/2021

• COMMUNIA salon on the implementation of the DSM directive and the Commission’s Article 17 implementation guidance [video 0km]
• New: Eurovision DSM contest website [1671 words]
• RightsCon 2021 panel: Upload filters for copyright enforcement take over the world: connecting struggles in EU, US, and Latin America [0km]
• Shared Digital Europe: From generative interoperability to the Interoperable Public-Civic Ecosystem [942 words]

Week 22/2021

• Kluwer Copyright Blog: European Commission back-tracks on user rights in Article 17 Guidance [2148 words with Julia Reda]
• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 implementation guidance: Strong user rights safeguards with a giant loophole [1201 words]
• COMMUNIA website: A closer look at the final Commission guidance on the application of Article 17 [2978 words]
• Flowchart: Automated filtering of user uploads - procedure proposed in the the Commission’s Guidance on Article 17 of Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market [95 words]

Week 21/2021

• Cities for Change Forum Transition Talk #5: Digital Infrastructures in the City - How Can Communities Benefit? [0km]

Week 20/2021

• COMMUNIA website: German Article 17 implementation law sets the standard for protecting user rights against overblocking [1108 words]
• Medium / We like to share: Mapping user rights in the evolving EU copyright framework [650 words]
• 1st meeting of the Stakeholder dialoog over verruimde collectieve licenties voor out of commerce werken organised by the Dutch Ministry of Culture [0km]
• Open Future team retreat to the Balcony of Europe [242km]

Week 18/2021

• COMMUNIA website: DSM Directive implementation update: With one month to go it is clear that the Commission has failed to deliver [933 words]

Week 16/2020

• Open letter from 20 user’s rights organisations to Usula von der Leyen, Margrete Vestager and Thierry Breton [665 words]
• COMMUNIA website: Open letter on Article 17: Is the Commission about to abandon its commitment to protect fundamental rights? [1062 words]
• Kluwer Copyright Blog: It’s 23 April 2021, so where is the Advocate General opinion in Case C-401/19 Poland v Parliament and Council? [692 words]

Week 15/2020

• Netzpolitik.org: Expertenanhörung zur Urheberrechtsnovelle „Das Beste, das dem Urheberrecht passieren konnte“? [1059 words]
• Stellungnahme der COMMUNIA Association zu dem Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung zur Anpassung des Urheberrechts an die Erfordernisse des digitalen Binnenmarkts [3616 words]
• Antwort auf eine Frage von MdB Dr. Petra Sitte zur Ausgestaltung der Fristen bei nicht verfügbaren Werken [588 words]
• Öffentlichen Anhörung im Ausschuss für Recht und Verbraucherschutz des Deutschen Bundestages zum Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Anpassung des Urheberrechts an die Erfordernisse des digitalen Binnenmarktes [video 1276km]

Week 14/2020

• Open Future Policy Brief: Europe’s Digital Decade​: A Compass without a map? [1655 words]

Week 11/2020

• COMMUNIA salon on the German proposal to implement Article 17 [video 0km]

Week 10/2020

• Towards a Shared Digital Europe: How to build digital public infrastructures for Europe? - Keynote at the Publicspaces.net Conference [video 3km]
• Open Future response to roadmap consultation on the European Commission’s common digital plan towards 2030 [1117 words]

Week 09/2020

🚀 We have launched Open Future our new think tank for a Shared Digital Europe with the publication of The Pardox of Open an interactive essay on the state of the Open Movement. publicspace.online will go into hibernation, you can follow Open Future on twitter or by subscribing to our monthly newsletter [2450 words] 🚀

Week 08/2021

• COMMUNIA website: German government draft on Article 17: Two steps forward, one step back [1357 words]
• Open Future Foundation [+2 FTE]

Week 06/2021

• Open Future response to the European Commission on the Proposal for a Regulation on European data governance (Data Governance Act) [1392 words]

Week 05/2021

• COMMUNIA website: France once more fails to demonstrate support for its interpretation of Article 17 [932 words]
• Europeana Advisory Board meeting [0km]

Week 04/2020

• COMMUNIA salon on the role of ex-ante user rights safeguards in implementing Article 17 [video 0km]
• Kluwer copyright blog: Article 17: (Mis)understanding the intent of the legislator [2056 words]

Week 03/2021

• Kluwer copyright blog: Divergence instead of guidance: the Article 17 implementation discussion in 2020 [2975 words]

Week 01/2021

• COMMUNIA website: DSM Directive implementation update: more proposals to protect users’ rights [1108 words]
• Open Future: We are looking for a policy researcher

Week 53/2020

• Epicenter.works, COMMUNIA and SaveTheInternet Austria: Stellungnahme zur Urheberrechts-Novelle 2021 in der vorab Begutachtung [+20 words]

🎄 📚: Good Strategy / Bad Strategy, Attack Surface

Week 52/2020

• Kluwer Copyright Blog: Finnish Article 17 implementation proposal prohibits the use of automated upload filters [1615 words]

Week 51/2020

• COMMUNIA website: Austrian Article 17 proposal: The high road towards implementation? [1424 words]
• Shared Digital Europe: Interoperability with a Purpose [1195 words]
• Shared Digital Europe: Mandated and generative interoperability joint paper with Alek Tarkowski and Bartosz Paszcza [7766 words]
• First meetup of the newly constituted Europeana Advisory Board [0km]

Week 50/2020

• COMMUNIA:DSM directive implementation update: six months to go and no end in sight [1425 words]

Week 49/2020

• eu-copyright-implementation.info: Implementierungs-Update zur DSM-Richtlinie: Sechs Monate vor uns und kein Licht am Ende des Tunnels [1289 words]
• Europeana webinar: The copyright directive: new approaches to the public domain and to out of commerce works [0km]

Week 48/2020

• Copyrightexceptions.eu: Version 2.0 feature complete prototype [code]
• Flowchart analysing a mechanism proposed in the debate on the German implementation of Article 17 [269 words]

Week 47/2020

• Implementatiewet richtlijn auteursrecht in de digitale eengemaakte markt [+63 words]

Week 46/2020

• COMMUNIA: Opinion on the the Referentenentwurf des Gesetzes zur Anpassung des Urheberrechts an die Erfordernisse des digitalen Binnenmarktes [2050 words]
• C-401/19 Republic of Poland vs the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union [🚘 836 km] [6348 words]
• Kluwer Copyright Blog: CJEU hearing in the Polish challenge to Article 17: Not even the supporters of the provision agree on how it should work [2089 words]

Week 45/2020

• Article 17 stakeholder dialogue: Users' rights organisations x Copyright Unit conference call [0km]
• Internet Governance Forum 2020: Shared Digital Europe – how to build a Public Civic Online Ecosystem [video] [0km]

Week 44/2020

• Reclaiming Digital Infrastructure for the Public Interest (Session 2): Digital Public Infrastructure: A Corporation for Public Software [0km]
• Comparison of mechanisms proposed for the practical application of Article 17(4) in compliance with Article 17(7) [1549 words]
• European PublicSpaces Summit [0km]

Week 43/2020

• 🔓➡️🍾 [23-10-2020]
• Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab: Advisory council meeting [0km]
• Creative Commons Global Summit: Various sessions including a presentation during the Roundtable of the Copyright reform platform [0 km]
• Reclaiming Digital Infrastructure for the Public Interest (Session 1): Digital Public Infrastructural Possibilities [0 km]

Week 42/2020

• new.new planning meeting [1433km]
• COMMUNIA website: Taming the upload filters: Pre-flagging vs. match and flag [1836 words]

Week 41/2020

• COMMUNIA website: Implementation update: French Parliament gives carte blanche, while the Netherlands correct course. [834 words]
• Europeana web conference under the German Presidency 2020 on ‘The role of copyright in the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector’ - Roundtable on the Past, present and future of copyright & digital transformation - opportunities in the copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive [0km]

Week 40/2020

• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 guidance: Don’t shoot the messenger / ne pas tirer sur le messager! [1775 words]
• Europeana Foundation Board meeting [0km]
• Porticus Digital Humanism Lab [0km]

Week 39/2020

• COMMUNIA response on the Survey on the Application of the Orphan Works Directive [1000 words]
• Hyperlinking reading club: AG Szpunar’s opinion in Case C‑392/19 VG Bild-Kunst v Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz [0km]

Week 38/2020

• Civil Society letter on the Article 17 implementation guidance to Commissioner Thierry Breton [904 words]
• COMMUNIA website: Civil Society letter on the Article 17 implementation guidance [300 words]
• Communia response to the Commission consultation on digital technologies and the cultural heritage sector [+903 words]
• COMMUNIA Salon 2020/4 - Which digital policies work for cultural heritage in 2020s? - Presentation on cultural heritage copyright policy advocacy [0km]

Week 37/2020

• COMMUNIA website: A step in the right direction: Our response to the targeted consultation on the Article 17 guidance [1064 words]
• Is it cool or not? - An attempt to understand AG Szpunar’s reasoning on the legality of hyperlinks [112 words, 1 hyperlink and 1 iframe]
• COMMUNIA response to the Targeted consultation addressed to the participants to the stakeholder dialogue on Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market [3905 words]

Week 36/2020

• COMMUNIA website: Commission consultation on Article 17 guidance: User rights must be protected at upload [1929 words]
• Rightsstatements.org Steering Committee meeting [0km]

Week 35/2020

• Europeana Foundation Board meeting [0km]
• Advies: Juridisch Raamwerk Archieven Design en Digitale Cultuur voor de werkgroep Infrastructuur ADDC [917 words]

Week 33/2020

• COMMUNIA comments on the European Commission’s Intellectual property action plan roadmap consultation [1044 words]
• Flowchart analysing the user rights safeguards outlined by the European Commission in its targeted consultation on the Article 17 implementation guidelines [73 words]

Week 34/2020

• Article 17 Stakeholder dialogue - Civil Society Strategy meeting [0km]

Week 32/2020

• Open Future Sessions #5 (invitation-only series of conversations about the role of open under the conditions of the current crisis and the future of open in a post crisis world) [0km]

Weeks 30-31/2020

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Week 29/2020

• new.new (working title) planning & strategy meeting [2402km]
• “Rightsstatements.org 2.0 - towards a smaller suite of rights statements?” discussion paper for the rightsstatements.org statements working group [1812 words]

Week 28/2020

• Open Future Sessions #4 (invitation-only series of conversations about the role of open under the conditions of the current crisis and the future of open in a post crisis world) [0km]

Week 27/2020

• Joint statement in response to the inception impact assessments on a new competition tool and an ex ante regulatory instrument of very large online platforms acting as gatekeepers. [991 words]
• Flowchart on the the limits of automated blocking/removal of uploads in the German proposal to implement Article 17 [101 words]
• COMMUNIA Salon 2020/3 on the German proposal to implement Article 17 of the DSM directive [video 0km]

Week 26/2020

• Digital Freedom Fund: The Need for Digital Rights Protections in Upcoming EU Competition Law Consultations [936 words]
• COMMUNIA webinar on implementation of Article 17 of the DSM directive: How to best implement Article 17 and what we have so far learned from Member State [0km]
• COMMUNIA webinar on DSM implementation for cultural heritage institutions: Article 14 Visuals Artworks in the the Public Domain [0km]
• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 implementation: German proposal strengthens the right of user and creators [1279 words]
• Open Future Sessions #3 (invitation-only series of conversations about the role of open under the conditions of the current crisis and the future of open in a post crisis world) [0km]

Week 25/2020

• Visualisation highlighting the selective implementation of Article 17 in the Dutch implementation law proposal [168 words]
• Article 17: Filters vs User rights - presentation at the COMMUNIA Salon 2020/2 on protecting freedom of expression via the pastiche exception [video 0km]

Week 24/2020

• COMMUNIA website: How Filters fail (to meet the requirements of the DSM directive) [1498 words]
• Open Future Sessions #2 (invitation-only series of conversations about the role of open under the conditions of the current crisis and the future of open in a post crisis world)[0km]
• COMMUNIA website: Member States watch: User rights safeguards must be fully implemented into national laws [873 words]
• Aandachtspunten behandeling implementatiewetsvoorstel DSM richtlijn in de Tweede Kamer - joint COMMUNIA and Bits of Freedom letter to members of the Commission for Justice and Legal affairs of the 2nd Chamber of the Dutch Parliament [2640 words]

Week 23/2020 [12/🦠]

• Implementatie van de DSM richtlijn in NL - Erfgoedinstellingen, niet of niet meer in de handel zijnde werken en ECL, presentation as part of the Webinar actualiteiten Auteursrecht en Erfgoedinstellingen offered by the University of Leiden [0km]
• Workshop on competition law and digital rights, 2 day training courtesy of the Digital Freedom Fund [video 0km]

Week 22/2020 [11/🦠]

• Open Future Sessions #1 (invitation-only series of conversations about the role of open under the conditions of the current crisis and the future of open in a post crisis world)[0km]

Week 21/2020 [10/🦠]

• COMMUNIA Salon 2020: Copyright in the DSM Directive – one year after [video 0km]

Weeks 19-20/2020 [8-9/🦠]

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Week 18/2020 [7/🦠]

• Shared Digital Europe: The press publishers right will fail - to support the media we should tax information aggregators instead. [1299 words]

Week 17/2020 [6/🦠]

• Waag & European Cultural Foundation workshop on European Online Public Spaces & Pan-European Media [0km]

Week 16/2020 [5/🦠]

• COMMUNIA website: A better way to implement Article 17? New German proposal to avoid overblocking [2051 words]

Week 15/2020 [4/🦠]

• www.veiligtegencorona.nl [+1 signature]

Week 14/2020 [3/🦠]

• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 Stakeholder Dialogue input paper: Ensuring the protection of users’ rights in the Article 17 implementation guidelines [3259 words]
• Open Letter to WIPO Director General Francis Gurry: Intellectual Property and COVID-19 [+1 footnote]

Week 13/2020 [2/🦠]

• 📝 report/grant writing

Week 12/2020 [1/🦠]

• Rightsstatements.org: Adopting the rights statements in India: A report on the national workshop [1304 words]

Week 11/2020

• Europeana Foundation Board meeting [102km]
• COMMUNIA website: Research Librarians: New TDM exception can be undermined by technical blocking from publishers [598 words]

Week 10/2020

• 📝 report/grant writing

Week 09/2020

• 📝 report/grant writing

Week 08/2020

• Shared Digital Europe: New EU digital strategy: Towards an open, democratic and sustainable society [1476 words]
• Meeting with MEP Axel Voss: A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe x A manifesto for Europe’s digital sovereignty and geo-political competitiveness [402km]

Weel 07/2020

• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 stakeholder dialogue (day 6): Hitting a brick wall [1669 words]
• Sixth meeting of the stakeholder dialogue on the application of Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, representing COMMUNIA [video, 402km]

Week 06/2020

• Symposium with Margrete Vestager organised by the temporary Commission on the Digital Future of the 2nd chamber of the Dutch Parliament [102km]
• Séminaire pour la présentation de rapport intitulé : “Vers une application effective du droit d’auteur sur les plateformes numériques de partage : état de l’art et propositions sur les outils de reconnaissance des contenus” [402km]

Week 05/2020

• Shared Digital Europe x Digital Society brainstorm at the Dutch Ministry of Finance [102km]

Week 04/2020

• Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference 2020: Shared Digital Europe - a vision for European digital policy and platform regulation [402km]
• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 stakeholder dialogue (day 5): It all depends [1177 words]

Week 02/2020

• Expert Workshop on Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage, hosted by ICF and DG CONNECT [402km]
• COMMUNIA website: Article 17: Both French and Dutch implementation proposals lack key user rights safeguards [1503 words]
• Recommendations for Europeana: Communicating rights information on the new Europeana Collections website [1919 words]

Week 52/2019

🎄 📚: The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, Pixeltänzer, Pattern Discrimination

Week 51/2019

• Making the best out of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive: An overview of implementation opportunities and risks, Study comissioned by the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament [12659 words]
• Fourth meeting of the stakeholder dialogue on the application of Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, representing COMMUNIA [video, 402km]

Week 50/2019

• Advancing Digital Rights Through Competition Law, 1,5 day training courtesy of the Digital Freedom Fund [201km]
• Presentation: Out of Commerce Works portal: High level design considerations at the EUIPO technical meeting on the establishment of the Out-of-commerce Works Portal [201km]

Week 49/2019

• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 stakeholder dialogue (day 3): Filters do not meet the requirements of the directive [893 words]
• COMMUNIA Guidelines for the Implementation of the DSM Directive, platform architecture & co-authored the guidelines on Use of Out of Commerce Works, Works of visual art in the public domain and Use of copyrighted content by online platforms [too many words]
• Shared Digital Europe: UK Labour party manifesto imagines a radically different digital space [448 words]

Week 48/2019

• Europeana 2019: Opportunities for digital cultural heritage and the public domain, under the EU Copyright Rules [3728km]
• COMMUNIA strategy meeting [1155km]
• Third meeting of the stakeholder dialogue on the application of Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, representing COMMUNIA [video, 402km]

Week 47/2019

• Governing Data as a Resource workshop at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society [184km]

Week 46/2019

• COMMUNIA website: Academic statement on safeguarding user freedoms in implementing Article 17 [502 words]
• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 stakeholder dialogue (day 2): Filters, not licenses! [1285 words]

Week 45/2019

• Second meeting of the stakeholder dialogue on the application of Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, representing COMMUNIA [video, 402km]

Week 44/2019

• A series of conversations on the future of open at Harvard Law School and American University [12380km]

Week 43/2019

• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 stakeholder dialogue (day 1): Same old, same old [2195 words]
• Mozfest 2019 and "Searching for new regulatory paradigm for online platforms" strategy meeting. [🛩 357km 🚄 581km]

Week 42/2019

• WIPO Conference on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries, Archives, Museums and Educational & Research Institutions, representing Europeana on the Archives Panel [1384km]
• First meeting of the stakeholder dialogue on the application of Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, representing COMMUNIA [video, 402km]
• COMMUNIA 2019 planning meeting at Centrum Cyfrowe [2188km]

Week 41/2019

• COMMUNIA website: Article 17 Stakeholder Dialogue: We’ll Continue to Advocate for Safeguarding User Rights [1164 words]
• Shared Digital Europe: Digital Services Act: Lets talk about objective and values before retreating into the trenches [753 words]

Week 40/2019

• Medium: Towards an auto-generative Public Domain? [856 words]
• CSO conversation on EU digital priorities [402km]

Week 39/2019

• Europeana Foundation Governing Board meeting [882km]

Week 38/2019

• Exchange of view with the European Commission on the Architecture of the Out of Commerce Portal [402km]
• FEPS/SAMAK workshop: Taking Charge of Europe’s Digital Future – The Progressive Narrative [2251km]

Week 37/2019

• iRights.info: Was bedeutet die EU-Urheberrechtsrichtlinie für die europäischen Kulturerbe-Institutionen? [2529 words]

Week 36/2019

• National Workshop on "Adoption of Rights Statements for Digital Libraries in India" at the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur [15324km]
• Shared Digital Europe: Europe’s Digital Leadership Package lacks a sense of mission [939 words]

Week 35/2019

• Academic Workshop on User Rights and Safeguards in Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive

Weeks 31-34/2019

🏝 📚: Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, Grand frère, Een kamer in Oostende, BUG (livre 2), The Open Revolution: New rules for a new world

Week 30/2019

• "Maak de regelingen zo werkbaar mogelijk" Interview in Fotografisch Geheugen no.98 [1689 words]

Week 28/2019

• Werkgroep Auteursrecht Nederlandse Erfgoedinstellingen: Artikel 10 Stakeholder overleg

Week 27/2019

• Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab Advisory Council meeting [8km]

Week 26/2019

• IE zomerforum 2019: Praktische gevolgen van het online beschikbaar maken van out-of-commerce werken door instellingen van cultureel erfgoed [5km]
• COMMUNIA website: Implementing the Copyright Directive: Protecting the Public Domain with Article 14 [1032 words]

Week 25/2019

• Heise online: EuroDIG-Debatte: Vernichtende Kritik an EU-Urheberrechtsrichtline [76 words]
• Working with the Europeana Licensing Framework presentation for the Europeana tech team [102km]
• European Dialoge on Internet Governance: EU copyright reform, the good the bad and the ugly [102km] [Heise Online article (in German)]

Week 24/2019

• Call to Europe VIII time for progress! Civil Society representative in the Time for a fair Digital Future! session.
• European Copyright Roundtables: Implementing the Digital Single Market Directive - contributed to the panel on over-blocking [video]
• Europeana Symposium on the new EU Copyright Rules: DSM directive: new rules for providing access to Out of Commerce Works [402km]
• COMMUNIA website: Canadian copyright report: Let’s wait and see how upload filters and press publishers rights will fail. [1129 words]

Week 23/2019

• Europeana pro: Explainer: What will the new EU copyright rules change for Europe's Cultural Heritage Institutions [2752 words]

Week 22/2019

• COMMUNIA copyright directive implementation strategy meeting [402km]
• New position: research fellow at the Institute for Information law of the University of Amsterdam

Week 21/2019

• Vereniging voor Auteursrecht: Artikel 17 DSM richtlijn [7km]
• New role: Member of the Advisory Council of the new Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab at the Institute for Information Law

Week 20/2019

• Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC [+69 words (Public Domain Clause) +231 words (OOCW fallback exception)]
• Europeana Office Hitchcock session: Europeana and the EU copyright reform - How we learned to work with the other side [102km]

Week 19/2019

• Creative Commons Global Summit 2019 in Lisbon [3728km]
• The European Copyright Directive: Past, Present, Future session: EU copyright reform - the good, the bad and the ugly presentation
• The state of copyright filters session: Article 17 of the Copyright in the DSM Directive presentation
• Public Domain Awareness Project: Rightsstatements.org jurisdiction specific Public Domain statements presentation

Week 18/2019

• GitHub repository containing all versions of Article 13 of the DSM directive that were discussed during the entire legislative process (September 2016 to March 2019) [29 versions]
• GitHub repository containing all versions of the cultural heritage articles in the DSM directive that were discussed during the entire legislative process (September 2016 to March 2019) [33 versions]

Week 17/2019

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Week 16/2019

• COMMUNIA website: DSM directive adopted – implementation in Member States can still make a difference

Week 15/2019

• 🏃‍♂️[42km]
• A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe [5835 words]
• Presentation DSM richtlijn: Maatregelen om licentiëring en toegang te verbeteren (Art. 8 - 14) at the DeLex DSM directive lunch event.

Week 14/2019

• A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe presentation at the publicspaces.net European coalition meeting at STRP festival [230km]

Week 13/2019

• Europeana pro: European Parliament adopts the copyright directive: A boost for Europe's cultural heritage institutions [752 words]
• European Parliament vote on the Copyright in the Digital Single Market directive [1904km]
• COMMUNIA website: Say YES to copyright and NO to Article 13 [369 words]

Week 12/2019

• 30 years of the Web: where do we go next? [402km]
• COMMUNIA website: Reminder: making platforms pay creators doesn’t require upload filters [1120 words]
• Rightsstatements.org anual steering committee meeting [204km]
• Europeana Copyright Community newsletter: Copyright reform: before the final vote [722 words]
• Update of the Europeana Data Exchange Agreement [-14 words]

Week 11/2019

• A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe presentation at BEUC/OSEPI workshop on "A Human-Centric Roadmap for Digital Europe"[402km]

Week 10/2019

• COMMUNIA post-reform strategy meeting [402km]
• Analysis of the final compromise language of Art.13 of the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market [1734 words]
• Europeana Copyright Advocacy update presentation at the Europeana Foundation Governing Board meeting [102km]

Week 09/2019

• Europeana Foundation comments on the EUIPO 2025 strategic plan consultation [555 words]

Week 08/2019

• Updated Internet is for the people to reflect final Copyright Directive trilogue outcome
• Europeana Network Association Management Board handover meeting [72km]
• New website
• A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe presentation at the Europeana Foundation Governance Board Changing Landscapes Working Group meeting [102km]

Week 07/2019

• Europeana pro: "Europe is one step closer to better copyright rules for cultural heritage institutions" [478 words]
• NRC Handelsblad: "Harde kritiek op vernieuwd Europees copyright" [107 words]
• Flowchart illustrating the complexity of Article 13 of the proposed EU copyright directive.

Week 06/2019

• COMMUNIA website: "Time to stop hijacking copyright to bolster the economic interests of specific sectors" [1199 words]
• COMMUNIA 2019 planning meeting at Centrum Cyfrowe [2188km]
• Back on the Keizersgracht : New office, shared with Commons Network in the attic of de Rode Hoed.

Week 05/2019

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Week 04/2019

• Re-launch of the 2010 Public Domain Manifesto at the Grand Reopening of the Public Domain at the Internet Archive [17544km]