Copyright at the Open Science Day 2023
Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič, LL.M., LL.M.,Head of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute (ODIPI) and the Intellectual Property Institute (IPI), both members of the Open Knowledge Community, will participate in the Open Science Day 2023. Maja will present on the area of copyright and the management of sub-copyright, contributing to the debate on the future of the Slovenian research landscape. The event will take place on 14 and 15 November at the Four Points by Sheraton Ljubljana Mons.
In May, she was appointed by the Minister as the European Research Area lead for Action 2 (ERA 2), which includes the tasks of “Proposing a research-appropriate EU legislative and regulatory framework on copyright and data” for Slovenia. Maja is also the national and regional coordinator of Knowledgerights 21. Maja will present new developments in copyright for science and research and in particular for open science and will present the activities of the Institute for Open Data and Intellectual Property, which is working to remove barriers and create incentives for open science in the copyright system.
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?