Open science and copyright, lecture by dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič
Today, 20 April 2023, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will give a lecture on Open Science and Copyright, organised by the University of Maribor.
Open science is one of the strategic goals of the Republic of Slovenia. To achieve this goal successfully, a number of legal obstacles will have to be overcome and legal incentives put in place. One of the main building blocks of open science is an appropriate copyright regime.
The lecture will last 90 minutes and will be held remotely. Read more here.
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?