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
1,500€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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 time Lobbyists 25% 7 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 17 Oct 2018
Name Start date End Date Leander NIELBOCK 31 May 2023 30 May 2024 Paul KELLER 29 Feb 2020 27 Feb 2021 Ms Teresa Isabel RAPOSO NOBRE 25 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Paul KELLER 21 Mar 2019 01 Jan 2020 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)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
http://www.communia-association.org/members/
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,500€
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 2017 operational costs we covered from membership fees. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
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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Date 22 Oct 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Launch of the dialogue on availability and access to audio-visual content Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings