COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain

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Overview

WARNING: As this organisation lists one or more EP accredited lobbyists, it may not be probable that its lobbying costs are lower than €10,000.

Lobbying Costs

1,000€

Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.75 Fte (7)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    COMMUNIA association for the public domain

    EU Transparency Register

    003277719548-45 First registered on 16 Nov 2015

    Goals / Remit

    COMMUNIA advocates for policies that expand the public domain and increase access to and reuse of culture and knowledge. We seek to limit the scope of exclusive copyright to sensible proportions that do not place unnecessary restrictions on access and use.

    The COMMUNIA International Association on the public domain is a network of activists, researchers and practitioners from universities, NGOs and SME established in 10 Member States. The mission of COMMUNIA is to foster, strengthen and enrich the Public Domain. COMMUNIA is an international association incorporated under Belgian law. The COMMUNIA association is built on the eponymous Thematic Network, funded by the European Commission from 2007 to 2011, which issued the Public Domain Manifesto and gathered over 50 members from academia and civil society researching and promoting the digital public domain in Europe and worldwide.

    COMMUNIA aims at maintaining and reinforcing a network of European and international organisations that work to inform policy discussion and strategic action on all issues related to the public domain in the digital environment and copyright rules that do not limit the public domain.

    COMMUNIA takes the public domain as a point of departure for its analysis of copyright policy. Our definition of the public domain has been codified in the Public Domain Manifesto that we authored and published in 2011 and that has been signed by more than 1500 organisations and individuals. The Public Domain Manifesto establishes a broad definition of the public domain that includes works that are not protected by copyright (because they have never been protected or because copyright protection has expired), as well as use rights created by open licensing practices and limitations and exceptions to copyright.

    Main EU files targeted

    All policy initiatives in the field of copyright and related rights, especially in relation to the digital environment. This includes but is not limited to the Digital Single Market.

    Address

    Head Office
    c/o wikimedia
    Troonstraat 55 Rue du Trône
    Ixelles 1050
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    7

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%7

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Oct 2017

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Leander NIELBOCK 31 May 2023 30 May 2024
    Mr Paul Keller 29 Feb 2020 27 Feb 2021
    Ms Teresa Isabel RAPOSO NOBRE 25 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021
    Mr Paul Keller 21 Mar 2019 01 Jan 2020
    Ms Anna Mazgal 23 Nov 2016 22 Nov 2017

    Complementary Information

    The FTEe identified above relate to persons employed by member organisations who work on COMMUNIA activities. COMMUNIA itself has no paid staff.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Mr Paul Keller (Administrative Board member)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Mazgal Anna (President)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    http://www.communia-association.org/members/

    Member organisations

    http://www.communia-association.org/members/

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    1,000€

    Other financial info

    COMMUNIA is mainly active as a coordinating platform of the members advocacy activities. The costs for the advocacy activities undertaken by members (and their staff) are not included in figures above as they are borne by the members themselves (and contributed in kind to COMMUNIA)

    Our 2016 operational costs we covered from membership fees.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None

    ACC

    None

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    We occasionally organize events and workshops and participate in events and workshops organized by other stakeholders. We regularly publish on our own website and on social media.

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    1 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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