Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič appointed ERA 2 Action Manager
On 26 January 2023, Minister Dr Igor Papič appointed Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič, LL.M., LL.M. (Intellectual Property Institute) and Ana Fidler (Central Technical Library of the University of Ljubljana) to the European Research Area (ERA) team for Action 2, which includes tasks in the field of “Propose an EU copyright and data legislative framework for research”.
The objective of the group are to identify barriers and challenges to accessing and re-using the results of publicly funded research and innovation, publications and data for scientific purposes, and to identify potential impacts on research by analysing the relevant provisions of EU copyright and data legislation, related regulatory frameworks and relevant institutional and national initiatives, and to propose legislative and non-legislative measures to improve the existing EU copyright and data framework.
The two representatives agreed to use the meetings to actively raise important issues concerning researchers and educators and open science in the field of copyright regulation. A workshop on “An EU copyright & data legislative framework fit for research: barriers, challenges and potential measures to address them” will take place in Brussels on 23-24 February 2023. Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič will attend the workshop in person in Brussels and will also briefly present the recent changes to copyright legislation in Slovenia, namely the new exception for text and data mining and the general exception for scientific research, as issues that have not been addressed by the reform.
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?