CopyrightUser.eu
Summary:
This project – part of the EU Horizon 2020 funded consortium reCreating Europe: Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe – addresses gaps in both knowledge and awareness of copyright in the European Union. The EU Copyright User Portal aims to become the point of reference for anyone looking for copyright guidance within the EU. It builds upon the existing and successful website CopyrightUser.org, an independent online platform intended to make UK copyright law accessible to creators, entrepreneurs, cultural heritage practitioners, and other ‘copyright users’.
CopyrightUser.eu has been designed to help ‘copyright users’ across the EU to make informed decisions on copyright issues. The core team has produced relevant guidance in cooperation with other Work Packages within the reCreating Europe consortium.
Funders:
Horizon 2020 – Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe (Grant Agreement No. 870626)
Team:
Bartolomeo Meletti
Principal Investigator
Martin Kretschmer
Co-Investigator
Duration:
2020-2022
Outputs:
CopyrightUser.EU was presented by Bartolomeo Meletti during three different webinars organised by the European Commission as part of their awareness campaign Understanding copyright – advice for public interest institutions: i) Webinar for teachers and educational institutions (10 June 2025); ii) Webinar for Museums (17 June 2025); Copyright law – Key takeaways for all cultural heritage, research, and education institutions: best practices, case examples and learning in practice (25 September 2025).
A live demonstration of CopyrightUser.EU for cultural heritage institutions can be found in the recording of the second webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWY5y4aNbnw
Launch of CopyrightUser.EU at the ReCreating Europe Final Conference (Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels, 21 March 2023).
Launch of Beta version of CopyrightUser.EU at WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR 43), during the CREATe side event ‘Evidence on Copyright: An Open Knowledge Approach‘ (WIPO, Geneva, 13 March 2025).
Meletti, B. (2021). D4.12 Interim report on the information architecture of the Copyright User EU site. Zenodo.