KR21 Webinar: The European eBook Ecology
On April 12, 2024, within the framework of Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21), a webinar titled “The European eBook Ecology – a view from authors and an update on eBook developments in Spain and Germany” will be held.
In the course of the webinar titled “The European eBook Ecology – a view from authors and an update on eBook developments in Spain and Germany,” speakers will discuss authors’ expectations of sustainable e-book markets, findings from new research in Spain regarding the legality of controlled digital lending of books, and political developments in Germany in the field of e-lending in libraries.
The online seminar will focus on the e-book market and the possibility of its sustainable development through copyright reform. Registration.
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.
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.
“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?