📊 Our 2025 Annual Report is out!
Over the past year, COMMUNIA continued working to strengthen the #PublicDomain and improve #accesstoknowledge and #culture across Europe.
Learn more about our impact and read it here 👇
communia-association.org/2026/03/05/c...
📢 #CREATe at 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 – Recordings available
We’re pleased to share a dedicated playlist featuring the recordings of CREATe’s contributions to European Public Domain Day 2026 at the Royal Library of Belgium.
#PublicDomain #Copyright #CreativeCommons #AccessToKnowledge #IPLaw
Progress on #copyright limitations and exceptions at @wipo.int matters for development and #accesstoknowledge. Prof. Faith O. Majekolagbe's new analysis, produced by South Centre and @knowledgegov.bsky.social, examines the African Group's proposed instrument and ...
Great news — KVAN has signed the #OurFutureMemory statement, joining nearly 40 organisations in calling for equal digital rights for libraries, archives & museums.
Let’s ensure our future memory remains accessible to all.
🔗 www.kvan.nl/nieuws/kvan-...
#DigitalHeritage #AccessToKnowledge
#ITALY'S SCHOOL PUBLISHING MARKET NEEDS REFORM!
KR21 & partners submitted a joint response to the Italian competition authority’s (AGCM) investigation.
Let’s remember: #AccessToKnowledge is a right, not a privilege.
🔗 Learn more in Deborah De Angelis' blog: www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/i...
2025 KDBASP CONFERENCE RECAP
@centrumcyfrowe.bsky.social’s @majadrabczyk.bsky.social, KR21 Polish coordinator, reflects on 2 library-focused panels, with KR21 representation, exploring #AccessToKnowledge, #CDSM & the need for library voices in policy debates (#ERAact)
🔗 kr21.info/kdbasp-confe...
"What a great time to be #Google. Not only is it facing only the meekest of punishments for abusing its #monopoly of the #search market, it is actually now positioned to further entrench its dominance of our information landscape.
This is a perilous moment to be granting one company this much […]
FROM UNIVERSITY HALLS IN OPOLE TO PROGRESS IN LIBRARIES ACROSS EUROPE!
Join the KR21-network on 25-26 Sept for KDBASP’s annual congress at Opole University, thanks to @centrumcyfrowe.bsky.social
Check out the Fri panels (11:30-13:15) on #CDSM & #AccessToKnowledge
🔗 kdbasp.bg.uni.opole.pl/kdbasp2025/
"Reading itself is brain training, and unlike regular reading, going to a library offers unexpected book encounters, broadening knowledge. Library events can also stimulate intellectual curiosity."
Another reason to protect and inhabit these essential spaces.
#Libraries #Health #AccessToKnowledge
🚨 BREAKING: New report on “Barriers and Enablers for #OpenScience in Copyright Law” by ODIPI with support from KR21.
↪️ Report page: www.knowledgerights21.org/reports/barr...
↪️ Learn how #copyright law blocks Open Science's promise: www.linkedin.com/posts/knowle...
#OpenAccess #AccessToKnowledge
A powerful move by South Africa’s Constitutional Court—affirming that access to knowledge is a matter of dignity and equality for people with disabilities.
If the law can evolve to recognise this, what’s stopping the rest of the world?
saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/…
#AccessToKnowledge
Just been made aware that many student unions in the UK now have “liberation officers”.
Trump would hate it, no doubt.
It got me thinking though... what if research library staff thought of themselves as knowledge liberation officers, and the research staff too?
More liberation please!
After […]
At #SCCR46, developing countries demanded real progress on #copyright limitations & exceptions and warned against expanding broadcasting rights that risk limiting #accesstoknowledge.
Read the full analysis: us5.campaign-archive.com?u=fa9cf38799...
2/📣 Have your say: Contribute to the European Commission’s survey on #AI in #Science by 5 June 2025. Stand up for open and fair access to data for research! 👉 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
#AccessToKnowledge #AccessToData #UnitedForKnowledgeRights
🤖 The UK needs a broad #TDM exception for #AI #innovation!
Tune in to the 8 April (14:00 BST) @datainnovation.org webinar to hear Ben White promote KR21’s vision of how the UK could position itself at the forefront of the AI revolution.
🔗 datainnovation.org/2025/04/why-...
#AccessToKnowledge
🚨 Public libraries are under attack, with funding disappearing in multiple states—and now federally too. What’s the endgame here?
📺 Watch the latest episode of Dino-Sense News to find out. 🦖🔥
#DinoSenseNews #LibraryFunding #DefundEducation #AccessToKnowledge #NewsWithBite
We're looking forward to the talk by Jo Guldi about the role of technology and data in modern governance.
📅 Join us on 25 April at 11 am in #Belval
#DigitalHumanities #AccessToKnowledge #Democracy #history #QuantitativeMethods
➡️ wwwuni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
2/ 👏 Friday is for sharing & caring!
🥖 Moving to France: Ophélie Wang will be sharing KR21’s perspective on fostering #AccessToKnowledge at the '#PrintempsCouperin' in Paris from 19-21 March 2025
↪️ www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/p...
#Couperin
🌍 Join us for an info event on #Research4Life! 📚
🗓️ Date: 20th Feb 2025
Learn how to access FREE/low-cost peer-reviewed journals & insights from experts! 🌱🎓
Register: www.digiface.org/information-...
#AccessToKnowledge #ScienceForAll
Everyone deserves access to AI tools.
🎧 Listen to the full episode https://youtu.be/D9VZJ2qGRFg
#AIForAll #TechEquity #KnowledgeIsPower #ConstructionTech #FutureOfAI #AccessToKnowledge
🎉 Big news! KR21 secures a €5.5M grant extension from the Arcadia Fund, empowering us to push for knowledge rights for 5 more years.
🔗 www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/k...
#UnitedForKnowledgeRights #AccessToKnowledge #AccessToCulture
Did you know millions of people still face barriers to accessing information? #Accessibility isn’t just a legal requirement,it’s a human right.Let’s break down why(pt1) #InclusivePublishing #AccessibilityMatters #PublishingPills #DigitalInclusion #Libraries #Publishing #Research #AccessToKnowledge
🙌 Join KR21 & NSZVO on 12 Dec for a #Copyright & #OpenScience roundtable in Zagreb!
Iva Melinščak Zlodi, KR21’s national coordinator for Croatia, moderates a discussion on advancing #AccessToKnowledge with experts from Zagreb University.
📽️ Watch: www.youtube.com/@nszvo
🔗 www.nsz.hr/novosti-i-ob...
