KR21 on a new study
The Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) network welcomes the publication of a new study by the European Commission entitled “Improving access to and reuse of research results, publications and data for scientific purposes”.
The Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) network welcomes the publication of a new European Commission study that identifies copyright and other barriers facing the European research sector. The study entitled “Improving access to and reuse of research results, publications and data for scientific purposes” identifies many obstacles for European researchers and offers important regulatory recommendations.
The study follows Enrico Letta’s report, which calls for the introduction of the Fifth freedom – the freedom of circulation of knowledge, as the European Union (EU), despite large investments in research, limits its research potential due to poor copyright regulations. In this regard, KR21 states in its blog that the European knowledge economy is trying to drive with the handbrake on.
The study notes that copyright law has been hindering scientific research and innovation for too long, which is contrary to the public interest, therefore the need to introduce legislation obliging publicly funded research to be immediately accessible to the public was highlighted, and a request to introduce flexible exemptions for open research into European legislation that would support the evaluation of knowledge and not distinguish between for-profit and non-profit reports.
KR21 hopes that in the near future, or in the next mandate, the EU will recognize the obstacles presented by the current copyright law and eliminate them, enabling equal competition with other progressive economies.
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?