Copyright Infrastructure Task Force

Logo Copyright Infrastructure Task Force. The Copyright Infrastructure Task Force is an expert forum between multiple countries that promotes standardisation with a view to improving the interoperability and trustworthiness of copyright data. Common data specifications will allow rightsholders to develop machine-readable licensing services and other solutions.

The aim is to create and maintain an “Open Rights Data Framework” (ORDF), based on EU legislation and semantic copyright information. The deployment of generative artificial intelligence has increased the need for work of this kind.

The work of the Copyright Infrastructure Task Force (CITF), which cooperates with the EU institutions, emphasises: 

  • practices based on use cases in the cultural and creative industries,
  • analysis of use cases,
  • drafts of requirements, and
  • definition of a copyright infrastructure at EU level.

The EUIPO Copyright Knowledge Centre was launched in November 2025. Global developments at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was launchedat the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange (AIII) in March 2026. Relevant CITF related work of WIPO can be found at WIPO Technical Expert Network TEN and WIPO Creator Awareness platform CLIP.

Update

The CITF Use Case Query is now closed. Thank you for your input. (1 June 2026)

CIFT Meeting, 2 June 2026:

Rightholders´ meeting 5 May 2026:

Backround Information

Presentation at the CITF seminar on 16 June 2025:

Further information

Anna Vuopala, Senior Ministerial Adviser 
Ministry of Education and Culture, Kulttuuri- ja taidepolitiikan osasto (KUPO), Division for Copyright Policy and Audiovisual Culture Telephone:0295330331   Email Address: