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.

Global development by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be launched at the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange (AIII) in March 2026. 

Update

SUBMIT information via the CITF Use Case Query to be discussed at the monthly meetings of the CITF  (webropol)

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: