Conference: Law in the Information Society
The Institute of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana and the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana organized a conference titled Law in the Information Society, which took place on March 28, 2024, at the Faculty of Law.
Thirteen speakers presented the benefits as well as the obstacles of digitization and the use of artificial intelligence in various legal fields. The legal starting points of the infrastructure for open science, federated social networks and their (non-)regulation, as well as legal and ethical issues in the digital environment were also discussed.
Representatives of ODIPI also attended the conference. For more details about the conference content, read the upcoming article in Legal Practice.
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?