On December 3, 2024, the “Knowledge Rights 21 Regional Alliance – Network of Librarians and Copyright Experts from Central and Southeastern Europe”, was officially established at a meeting hosted at the Four Points by Sheraton Ljubljana Hotel. The event was organized by Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI and chaired by Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič.

Recordings and presentations from all speakers at the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia are now available on the subpage “Recordings and PPTs of Presentations by Speakers”.

Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI invites you to a discussion organized by the European Commission Representation in Slovenia titled “Democracy in the Grip of Disinformation: What Can the EU Do?”. The event will take place on Friday, December 13, 2024, from 11:00 to 12:30 at the House of the EU in Ljubljana, Slovenia and online.

Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI organized the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia on December 2, 2024, with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia and the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) program. The Conference focused on addressing the most pressing issues in copyright regulation in the fields of science and Open Science within the European Union (EU), with particular emphasis on barriers and incentives for Open Science in copyright law. The event represented the contribution of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia to implementing European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda Action 2, which focuses on creating a supportive EU legislative framework for copyright and data governance.

On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, the second day of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit 2024 took place at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič participated as a speaker, presenting during the panel titled “AI Regulation – what we learned so far?”.

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.

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

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 research purposes.