Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Licensing in Europe 2023
The new report of the Knowledge Rights 21 project partner SPARC Europe is now available.
‘Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Licensing in Europe 2023’: https://lnkd.in/eVg9HTK7
The report, prepared with the support of Knowledge Rights 21, reveals the progress of institutional rights preservation policies in Europe, provides insights into open access rights preservation policies and offers options to address different situations.
The report is of particular importance because there is a diversity of stakeholders who play an important role in making research publications accessible and re-usable, and the value of dialogue in overcoming fears, misunderstandings and disagreements.
What are some of the key recommendations?
Institutional policymakers: amplify existing policies supporting rights retention.
Funders & legislators: formulate policies accommodating different contexts, but adhering to common frameworks that support institutions and their authors advocating for change relating to author rights retention, copyright transfer and open licensing.
Publishers: support authors and institutions in retaining rights over their creations to foster immediate open access and reuse, respond clearly to rights retention inquiries, set zero embargoes, and use open access Creative Commons licences.
In June 2024, the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) network and Communia, published research findings in a publication entitled Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights, which was authored by professors Christophe Geiger and Bernd Justin Jütte.
On Thursday, July 4, 2024, TV SLO 1 aired a new show Conversations about the Future with the subtitle Alternative Futures, in which three guests reflected on the dilemmas and opportunities of an increasingly digitized society. In addition to Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič from ODIPI, were also anthropologists Dr. Dan Podjed from ZRC SAZU and computer engineer Dr. Blaž Zupan from the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics UL.
In the first week of July 2024, the Summer Course on International Copyright Law and Policy took place in Amsterdam, which was also attended by the young researcher Laura Pipan from ODIPI.
On Friday, June 14, 2024, the second day of the Global Conference on AI and Human Rights took place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič gave a lecture as part of the 14th panel entitled AI and Intellectual Property: Revolution or Robbery?