Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Licensing in Europe 2023
The new report of the Knowledge Rights 21 project partner SPARC Europe is now available.
‘Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Licensing in Europe 2023’: https://lnkd.in/eVg9HTK7
The report, prepared with the support of Knowledge Rights 21, reveals the progress of institutional rights preservation policies in Europe, provides insights into open access rights preservation policies and offers options to address different situations.
The report is of particular importance because there is a diversity of stakeholders who play an important role in making research publications accessible and re-usable, and the value of dialogue in overcoming fears, misunderstandings and disagreements.
What are some of the key recommendations?
Institutional policymakers: amplify existing policies supporting rights retention.
Funders & legislators: formulate policies accommodating different contexts, but adhering to common frameworks that support institutions and their authors advocating for change relating to author rights retention, copyright transfer and open licensing.
Publishers: support authors and institutions in retaining rights over their creations to foster immediate open access and reuse, respond clearly to rights retention inquiries, set zero embargoes, and use open access Creative Commons licences.
On December 3, 2024, the “Knowledge Rights 21 Regional Alliance – Network of Librarians and Copyright Experts from Central and Southeastern Europe”, was officially established at a meeting hosted at the Four Points by Sheraton Ljubljana Hotel. The event was organized by Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI and chaired by Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič.
Recordings and presentations from all speakers at the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia are now available on the subpage “Recordings and PPTs of Presentations by Speakers”.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI invites you to a discussion organized by the European Commission Representation in Slovenia titled “Democracy in the Grip of Disinformation: What Can the EU Do?”. The event will take place on Friday, December 13, 2024, from 11:00 to 12:30 at the House of the EU in Ljubljana, Slovenia and online.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI organized the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia on December 2, 2024, with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia and the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) program. The Conference focused on addressing the most pressing issues in copyright regulation in the fields of science and Open Science within the European Union (EU), with particular emphasis on barriers and incentives for Open Science in copyright law. The event represented the contribution of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia to implementing European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda Action 2, which focuses on creating a supportive EU legislative framework for copyright and data governance.