A Call for International Action for Right to Research
In the recent days, Global Network on Copyright Users Rights published an article, publicly calling upon WIPO to promote broad and open Text and Data Mining (TDM) exceptions and limitations in international setting in order to enable the use of new technologies in scientific research.
Last year, the Global Network on Copyright Users Rights (their member is also dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, IPI) emphasised the importance of TDM exceptions in their Joint Comment to WIPO on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, prepared as a part of the WIPO’s public call for comments on their Draft Issues Paper on Intellectual Property Policy and Artificial Intelligence. More in our post “Impact of AI on IP”.
The Global Network on Copyright Users Rights’ open call to action aims to shed light on the importance of using TDM and the so-called machine learning in research, and on the need for broad copyright exceptions and limitations for TDM and the open access. It is definitely not negligible that the new Coronavirus pandemic spread was foreseen with the use of TDM in the BlueDot project.
Therefore, the Global Network on Copyright Users Rights called upon WIPO to work on international instruments for facilitating the cross-border use of TDM as well as sharing of TDM results. This would pose a significant improvement against the current inadequate copyright regulation of TDM.
The issue at hand is of great importance in regards to the new EU Copyright Directive 2019/790 as well, since number of EU Member States find themselves in this very moment in the middle of crossroads, where they can implement a good and broad TDM exception, or they can go down the path of narrow and limiting TDM exception, which would seriously hinder further use of TDM, new technologies and AI. Read more on this topic in our post “Extraordinary conditions show the necessity for fast and good implementation of the new Directive”.
The 4th Open Knowledge Day took place on Tuesday 17 October 2023, with an accompanying workshop on 18 October 2023. This year it was organised by the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute (ODIPI) and supported by Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21).
We invite you to the fourth Open Knowledge Day and the workshop, which will take place this year within the framework of the programme and with the support of Knowledge Rights 21. The event will bring together experts from different European countries to discuss two topics: the first part will deal with the legal basis for data analytics, which is a key part of machine learning and related artificial intelligence, and the general exception for research. In the second part, open science in theory and practice will be presented both in Slovenia and in some Western Balkan countries. Representatives of research and educational institutions from Slovenia and the Western Balkan countries, as well as interested members of the public, are invited to attend.
Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, a renowned expert in copyright law, has joined the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where she will serve as an affiliate researcher for the next two years.
On Friday, October 6, 2023, the online seminar “Practical Experiences in Resolving Copyrights of Modern Book Works” took place. The seminar addressed relevant questions concerning user access to literary works in digital form.