EU Council calls for transparent, fair and open access to academic publications
On 23 May 2023, the Council of the EU adopted conclusions on high quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and fair academic publishing, calling for immediate and unrestricted open access in the publication of research involving public funds.
This is an advance of the utmost importance for science and the research community.
Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič is the KR21 National Coordinator for Slovenia and the region of the Western Balkans.
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?