Hi all,

I am really glad to announce that Communia (the European association uniting Wikimedia, Creative Commons, OKFN et al.) has today released https://www.communia-association.org/2019/12/02/guidelines-implementation-dsm-directive/its guidelines for the implementation of the DSM (a.k.a. Copyright) Directive.

These guidelines are intended to be of help to local advocates and national policy makers while transposing the directive into national law. The overall policy stance it to exand and strengthen user rights and access to cultural heritage, even beyond what is strictly adopted within the European law. They are part of a wider implementation project by COMMUNIA and its members Centrum Cyfrowe https://centrumcyfrowe.pl/ and Wikimedia https://www.wikimedia.org/ to make sure that local communities in as many countries as possible participate in their national copyright reforms.

Even better, we partnered with LIBER https://libereurope.eu/ (Articles 3 and 4), IFLA https://www.ifla.org/ (Article 6) and Europeana https://pro.europeana.eu/ (Articles 8 to 11) to create these guidelines. Numerous experts were involved in the tedious process of interpreting the Copyright Directive and providing guidance on how to shape national rules in a way that benefits users and the public interest. It was not always easy to make sense of this piece of legislation. So, we are very thankful for all their time and patience.

Please:

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Read the guidelines here https://www.notion.so/Guidelines-for-the-Implementation-of-the-DSM-Directive-45233be9c0e143338860ae5a03118bf3 -

Send us feedback: We are very much seeing these guidelines as living documents that can be improved based on feedback or external developments in the implementation process. You can send your feedback via email to transposition@communia-association.org or by commenting directly on the wiki-style platform “notion” that we are using to publish the guidelines (you need to be logged into notion and you can make a free account here: https://www.notion.so/login). -

Endorse the entire guidelines or individual guides: if you are part of an organization that would like to endorse the guidelines, send us an email transposition@communia-association.org

NB: Notion was chosen instead of one of our wikis because of the improved UI/usability and design. And, frankly, we wanted to test another service based on Wiki software in order to be able to compare.

Cheers,

Dimi