The following institutions and persons are founding members of COMMUNIA:
- Creative Commons, US
- European Academy of eJustice (EEAR), Germany
- Greek Free / Open Source Software Society (ELLAK), Greece
- iCommons Ltd, UK
- IPI, Intellectual Property Institute, Slovenia
- Metamorphosis Foundation, Macedonia
- Sopinspace, France
- Kennisland, the Netherlands
- Open Knowledge Foundation, UK
- Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt, Poland
- Juan Carlos De Martin, NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN), Italy
- Federico Morando, NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN), Italy
- Danièle Bourcier, CERSA CNRS Université Paris 2, France
- Peter Troxler, Square1
- Primavera De Filippi, CERSA CNRS Université Paris 2, member of the Administrative Council
- Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, CNRS ISCC, member of the Administrative Council
- Ignasi Labastida, Oficina de Difusió del Coneixement, Universitat de Barcelona, member of the Administrative Council
- Anne-Catherine Lorrain, member of the Administrative Council
- Alek Tarkowski, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt, member of the Administrative Council
Become a member
If you are interested in the promotion and preservation of the public domain and want to take part to the discussion, please join the Communia association.
- You can take part to the public mailing list discussion on communia-associates@lists.communia-association.org by registering at https://lists.communia-association.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/communia-associates
- You can also send an application to become a participative member of the international association, either as an individual or as an institution. Please send to info@communia-association.org an expression of interest with a few lines describing your activities and how you would like to contribute to the association. The Administration Council will review your application usually within two weeks and apply the following criteria:
- Membership applications should be sent to info@communia-association.org
- Candidates need to write briefly why they would like to join and how they would like to contribute
- Institutional members need to have a proven track record in supporting the digital Public Domain
- Individual members need to have signed the Public Domain Manifesto
- Each new member needs to be sponsored by two existing members
- New membership applications can be be rejected if more than 10% of the existing members of the General Assembly members raise objections to the Administration Council.
All members shall pay a yearly membership fee amounting to:
- For individuals: 30 (thirty) Euros;
- For students under 30 (years of age) and providing justification of their student status: 10 (ten) Euros;
- For organisations established in an OECD country (as defined by the OECD at the moment of the payment of the membership fees): 300 (three-hundred) Euros;
- For organisations non established in an OECD country (as defined by the OECD at the moment of the payment of the membership fees): 100 (one-hundred) Euros
