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ODIPI is organizing ERA KR21 Conference with an interesting programme about copyright and open science that will take place on 2 December, 2024 at Hotel Mons and also online. You are invited to register here.

The Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI is a research, education and consultancy institution working in the fields of internet and society, open science, open data and data governance in relation to artificial intelligence, and copyright law.

ODIPI is the National Coordinator for Slovenia and Regional Coordinator for the Western Balkans for Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21), and leads the KR21 Research Network for Central and Southeastern Europe (KR21 Research Network for C&SE Europe).

ODIPI organised the school Generative AI and Law, which was honoured by the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr Nataša Pirc Musar, at the end of 2023, together with the Faculty of Law UL and the Faculty of Computer and Information Science UL, which took place in November 2023.

ODIPI is part of the Network of Centres, a network of the world’s leading institutions studying the internet and society, and a member of the Slovenian Open Science Community. ODIPI is a sister institution of the Intellectual Property Institute, which has been active since 2004.

Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič is the founder and head of the Institute for Open Data and Intellectual Property ODIPI. She is an Associate Research Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, a board member of Communia, and has been the representative and legal lead of Creative Commons Slovenia since 2004. She leads the national and regional coordination for Knowledge Rights 21. She is also the founder and head of IPI, a sister institution of ODIPI.

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ERA KR21 Conference

ODIPI is organizing ERA KR21 Conference: Barriers and Incentives for Open Science in the Copyright Law that will take place on 2 December, 2024 at Hotel Four Points by Sheraton (Mons) in Ljubljana and also online.

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First action brought by a collective managment organization against a provider of generative AI systems

GEMA is the first European collective management organization to file a lawsuit against OpenAI over the unlicensed use of copyright works.

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Generative AI and Copyright: The First Court Case in Europe

The District Court of Hamburg ruled in the case of Kneschke v. LAION e.V. that LAION did not infringe the copyright of photographer Kneschke, as the use of his photograph was covered by the exception for text and data mining (TDM) for scientific purposes.

Publikacije

Can copyright bring AI to its knees?

“Can copyright bring artificial intelligence to its knees? Which other circumstances may cause that the “making” of generative AI can dramatically change in the (near) future. This short paper presents potential challenges that copyright poses to the training of the machines on large amount of data. Different jurisdictions address these issues differently. In the USA the legality of these activities is tested in several court cases. Do gentlemen’s agreements and pragmatic symbiosis known from the “search engines business model” provide sufficient basis and/or incentive for the business model of “making” generative AI business model as well?

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“Converging Realms” Conference

On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.

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The SPOZNAJ Project

Today, September 26, 2024, a specialist training for persons who will perform the role of data stewards or related profiles of data experts was organized by the Central Technical Library (CTK) at the University of Ljubljana as part of the SPOZNAJ project, at which Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič also lectured on the subject of open science and copyright.

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“Converging Realms” Conference

At the end of this week, between September 26 and September 27, 2024, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will attend the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI”.

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PoVeJMo

On Monday, September 16, 2024, a public debate took place at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science of the University of Ljubljana on legal, ethical and technical issues regarding the large language model for Slovenian language as part of the PoVeJMo project.