About copyrightexceptions.eu

This site is a collaborative effort to map user rights in the European Union’s copyright framework. To do this copyrightexceptions.eu provides information on the national implementations of the various exceptions and limitations to copyright and related rights foreseen in the following EU copyright directives:

• the 2001 Copyright in the Information Society Directive,
• the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive,
• the 2012 Orphan Works Directive, and
• the 2017 Marrakesh Directive.

Copyright exceptions is a joint project by the COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain, Open Future and Digital Republic.

You can reach us at feedback@copyrightexceptions.eu.

Methodology and Data Sources

The information made available on copyrightexceptions.eu is the result of a collaborative effort by academics and copyright reform advoctes across Europe. The information made available here is based on analysis of primary sources (the copyright legislation of the respective jurisdictions). Whenever possible information has been peer reviewed before publication.

And overview of the contributors and data sources can be found on the methodology page. We welcome additional contributions, updates and corrections. Further instructions on how to contribute can be found on the contribute page.

Support

The current version of copyrightexceptions.eu has been made possible with support from the Creative Commons Copyright Platform Activities Fund and from Wikimedia Italia. The original version of copyrightexceptions.eu (2016 - 2021) was developed by Kennisland with support from the Information Programme of the Open Society Foundations.

Technical partners

The map interface for copyrightexception.eu had been developed by IP Squared based on leaflet.js framework. Information architecture and design by publicspace.online Implemented with HUGO and GitHub