In a dispute that took place before the court of Milan this year, Banksy, or rather the company that represents his works, filed a lawsuit against the organiser of an exhibition of his works. The court concluded that the sale of merchandise incorporating his famous Flower Thrower constitutes trademark infringement as this work had been […]

At the workshop, she presented the basics of copyright and the exceptions and limitations for cultural heritage institutions, especially libraries, were discussed in more detail. A number of questions that were sent in advance by the participants were then discussed at the workshop. The final section of the workshop outlined the new exceptions and limitations […]

At the consultation, the participants presented their opinions that will serve as the expert starting points for the IRCAI operation. The purpose of the consultation was to connect stakeholders in the field of AI in Slovenia as well. For that purpose, ministries and research institutions contributed their views on the opportunities and role of IRCAI […]

The dialogue took place in Brussels on Tuesday, 15 October 2019. European Commission invited a number of stakeholder organizations, in particular representatives of rightholders, Online Content Service Sharing Providers (OCSSPs), consumers, users and fundamental rights associations. The full list of invited organizations is available here. The whole-day dialogue was streamed live online via the European […]

Amendment proposal was accepted into consideration by the Slovenian Parliament on 6 June 2019, it was adopted on 26 September 2019, and finally promulgated on 4 October 2019. The Amendment ZASP-H, which enters into force on 19 October 2019, regulates copyright restrictions or the free use of copyrighted works for the benefit of disabled persons. […]

The event will take place on 24 October from 9:00 to 16:00 in the City Museum of Ljubljana and will consist of two parts: in the morning the Workshop “Copyright for Librarians” will take place, and in the afternoon the event “Wikimedia Loves Monuments”, where members of the Slovenian Wikipedia members will present the importance […]

As part of the “Another Open Knowledge Day 2019” event, IPI and National University Library, with support from Communia, extend the invitation to the “Copyright for Librarians” Workshop, held at the City Museum of Ljubljana on 24 October 2019 from 9:00 to 12:30. At the workshop, librarians will learn about the current legal framework, as […]

The panel discussions revolved around the intersection of AI and legal decision-making, AI and business, AI and intellectual property, AI and constitutional rights, and AI and liability. Tjaša Zapušek, research assistant at IPI presented recent findings of her PhD research at University of Zürich. She talked about differences between three different ‘decision-making processes’ that occur […]

The Faculty of Social Sciences organised the “Copyright in Education” workshop on 1 October 2019, as part of the INOVUP project. There, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič presented the basics of copyright, with a particular focus on addressing the exceptions and limitations of copyright for the purposes of education, and the challenges posed by digital technologies. […]

The central theme of the third summer school of Democracy and Human Rights was FREEDOM. For this reason, the panel discussions revolved around bounderies of parliamentary democracy, bounderies of free market, freedom of speech, freedom of media and freedom of publishing market. The Third Summer School of Democracy and Human Rights ended with two workshops: […]

The broadcast briefly presents some important building blocks of Open Knowledge and the institutions that operate in this field in Slovenia. Their representatives talked about where the idea of Open Knowledge originates from, what is Open Data, and how do Wikipedia and Zavod 404 contribute to the dissemination of knowledge. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič explained […]

The Autumn School was organised for law students of all three Slovenian law faculties. Throughout the event, experts debated on various topics with focus on new legal challenges in the era of digital progress, such as Artificial Intelligence and Text and Data Mining. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič held a lecture titled “Text and Data Mining […]

The objective of WIPO Conversation on IP and AI is to provide Member States with an opportunity to hold conversations and exchange views on various topics regarding AI for didactic purposes and formulating the right questions with respect to the possible impact of AI on the IP system. Expected results of the WIPO Conversation on […]

The world-famous jeans producer G-Star has sued its competitor because the later was producing similar designs of jeans and T-shirts. The Portuguese court, to which the case was handed, said that the works of applied arts, industrial designs and design works can without doubt be copyrighted. However, the court was not sure to what extent […]

The Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market is one of the important issues being discussed at the meeting. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič has presented the issue of the exception for education regulated in Article 5. This exception will enable the free use of copyright works in digital form for the purpose of educational […]

One of the important questions that is being discussed at PCF9 is also Open Education. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will also be attending the event and sitting on the panel on Common Frameworks for Sharing Openly Licensed Educational Materials.

On the session on building partnerships between Wikimedia and Creative Commons activists, as well as other organisations, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič presented the lessons learned in Slovenia. Read more about this conference here.

In May 2019, UC joined more than 135 educational institutions and organizations advocating open access, more financial transparency and less barriers in publishing scientific articles. Professor Steven Brenner from UC Berkeley said in an interview for The Daily Californian that the main purpose of the research at UC is to make the works available to the general […]

The Dutch proposal in a nutshell: – implementation of the extended collective licensing system into the national legislation, – no changes to the public domain regulation since the government believes that the national legislation as already in line with Article 14, – regarding the new related right for press publishers (Article 15), the proposal envisages […]

You can read more about the summer school here.

This is how Tilen Zonta wrote about the event in a report published in the 26th edition of Pravna praksa on 4 July 2019. The report is available (in Slovene) for the subscribers of the magazine on this link.

The full program is available here (in Slovene).

Novelties for the blind, the visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled (beneficiary persons): – An exception in favour of people with disabilities (Article 48.a ZASP) now explicitly mentions also beneficiary persons and broadens the scope of permitted actions that do not require the authorization of the author: reproduction, including necessary non-substantive adjustments, distribution and communication to […]

Open Education Resources (OER) encompasses educational and research materials that are freely accessible though open licences. Slovenia played an important role in the adoption of this document as it organized the 2nd World Open Education Resources Congress in 2017.

On the seminar, different stakeholders discuss the regulation of online platforms and social media in the EU. More about the event here.

Last week, the Polish Government challenged the Directive before CJEU as it believes that the censorship the Directive introduces is contrary to the Polish Constitution and the Charter.

This is how Jan Gerlach (Senior Public Policy Manager, Wikimedia Foundation) commented on the possible domino effect of the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. The whole video of the programme Studio City can be accessed here.

Applications are open until 20 June 2019. More information on this website.

In the letter they emphasize the importance of respecting the rights from the Charter of fundamental rights of the EU in the process of transposing the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market into national legislations of member states. In connection to Article 17 (previous Article 13), freedom of expression and a transparent implementation […]

They discussed the ever-changing face of the digital environment, the role different actors play in different scenarios and the current developments related to the copyright directive will have on the future of the internet. You are invited to listen to the podcast on this link.

This is how the newspaper Večer reported on the event Open Knowledge Day. Read the whole article (in Slovene) here.

In the article, which is available here (in Slovene) she spoke about the text and data mining exception, about the exception for education, about the controversial Articles 11 and 13 (now 15 and 17) and also about Creative Commons network, the implementation of the exception for blind and visually impaired as well as plagiarism.

The event echoed on the podcast Dogodki in odmevi, while Urška Henigman also interviewed Žiga Vrtačič (Today is a new day) and dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič (Intellectual Property Institute) as well as Jan Gerlach (Senior Public Policy Manager, Wikimedia Foundation), all of whom participated in the event.

The interview is available in Slovene on this website. Tilen Zonta translated the article in English.

Students from the first and second cycle of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design participated in the exhibition. Their goal was to remake and reinterpret four known authors, whose works are already in the public domain. Students made their works available under the license CC BY-NC-SA. All the works are available to […]

Maja Cimerman (Today is a new day) opened the event, while Filip Dobranić (Today is a new day) and Maja Bogataj Jančič (Intellectual Property Institute) also had some introductory words. The latter stressed that the aim of such events is to stimulate everyone working in the field of open knowledge. As the first speaker, Emina […]

There, we have discussed the main documents that are important for the functioning of the chapter, about the website cc.si that will soon be established as a reference point, about the past and future work within the CC network and we have also unanimously elected: – Žiga Vrtačič as Chapter Lead – Maja Bogataj Jančič […]

The exhibition, entitled Create a work that’s not yours is organized in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and Aksioma, Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and with the support of the Intellectual Property Institute. Works of 33 students of ALUO will be available on the exhibition, all under the CC BY-NC-SA license. […]

Everyone interested (members, future members and non-members alike) are kindly invited to join us on Monday on the introductory meeting, where we will discuss on future work and review the highlights of the main documents: CCGN Strategy, Charter, including Code of Conduct, and Chapter Standards and Guidelines. Welcome.

You can read more on the different aspects of the Directive and the changes it will introduce on the following links: – The Directive is still bad! – About the Directive – Internet is for the people In Slovenia, the most notable event in the negative sense was a severe infringement of moral and economic […]

On the Open Knowledge Day, that will be organized on 6 May 2019 in Ljubljana, individuals contributing to the society of Open Knowledge in Slovenia and in the World, will present some of these key building blocks. The event will take place between 12:00 and 17:30 in the atrium of ZRC SAZU and will be moderated […]

In honour of this day, dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will give a lecture on copyrights and Creative Commons licenses on the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. At the same time, this is a preliminary event of the Day of Open Knowledge and Culture that will be organized in Ljubljana on 6 May 2019.

The purpose of the seminar was to present important and interesting judgements in the field of intellectual property law that were adopted between the years 2015 and 2019 in Slovenia. In the first part of the seminar, Magda Teppey from the Higher Court in Ljubljana presented the case law in the field of industrial property […]

The PSI Directive is the update of the Directive on re-use of public sector information from 2003, lastly revised in 2013. The new directive establishes that all public sector content, accessible under national rules on access to documents, will in principle be freely available for re-use. While public sector bodies will in very limited cases […]

Compared to February’s vote on the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER), on which the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Italy and Finland voted against, while Slovenia and Belgium abstained from voting, today also Sweden was against and Estonia erred on the side of the abstained. Nevertheless, a qualified majority of 16 Members States representing 65% of the […]

Novak, who is one of the most ardent supporters of the Directive in Slovenia, explained that it is the first attempt of opening and harmonizing copyright law after 18 years and that it tries to preserve the balance between protecting copyrighted works and ensuring society free access to knowledge. The attempt is not optimal, however, […]

You can contribute to the translations by providing comments on the translations (and not on the substance) of the licenses. You can access the translations by clicking the following links (the username is “creative” and the password is “commons”). The original texts are available in the brackets: – by-nc-sa 4.0 license in Slovene (in English), – […]

This statement was given by Teresa Nobre – a representative of Communia, which is a permanent observer of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), taking place this week at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Such international law is TERA (Treaty on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations on Education and Research […]

You are invited to listen to the podcast (in Slovene) here.

Some place their hopes with Germany, where the political party CDU, ironically the same political party that rapporteur of the European Parliament Axel Voss belongs to, has already announced that it will strive for Germany not to implement upload filters. However, this seems unlikely and additionally complicated due to some alleged political plots. Slovenia did […]

The Directive was adopted with 348 votes in favour and 274 votes against (see how individual MEPs voted here). Before that, MEPs voted on the possibility of amending the Directive and making it better, which they rejected with only 5 votes of difference: 317 votes against and 312 votes in favour. Consequently the deletion of […]

The Directive as a whole remains harmful, thus, the MEPs should reject it (if you want to know why, watch the video of yesterday’s program Odmevi (in Slovene), on which dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič explained why the Directive should be rejected, or you can read the analysis of the Directive on the website Internet is […]

You can access the article (in Slovene) here.

The academics from the leading European research centres for intellectual property and technology law still oppose the Directive that, in their opinion, protect very narrow interests. Even though there has been some improvement since the first open letter in February 2017 and the second open letter in April 2018, that were signed by more than […]

The Ministry has explained: “In accordance to its mandate, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport has been from the very beginning striving for a balanced legislative solution that would appropriately consider the interests in education and research. Despite these efforts, it is clear that the Directive will not bring adequate solutions for education and […]

Through illustrative cases Prof. Kretschmer highlights, why Article 13 must be opposed, as IPI has been repeating all along (and recently quite loudly). His convincing arguments also explain, why the Directive as a whole is damaging to a balanced and effective copyright system across the EU and why Europe would be better off by rejecting […]

The problematic provision will pose an obligation to platforms, on which users upload certain contents, to conclude license agreement for practically every possible copyrighted work, otherwise they will be liable for the uploaded content infringing copyright. To avoid a relatively high degree of legal risk, platforms will in doubt block the content (with upload filters […]

The free internet community organizes an action week from 20 to 27 March, which focuses mainly on the negative consequences of Article 13: – on 21 March (“Internet blackout day”), many websites will shut down in sign of protest against the introduction of filters, – on 23 March, there will be protests throughout Europe, including […]

  One of the things that remains unchanged is our logo. It was inspired by the perpetual motion machine – a machine that constantly rotates without any energy source – or rather a sketch of the machine as drawn by Leonardo da Vinci: an inventor, sculptor, architect, writer, musician and scientists who personalizes intellectual property […]

Beside her, the following persons took part of the podcast: – the National Messenger of Digital Technology, dr. Marko Grobelnik, presented from a technological perspective, in which phase of development are the filters that Article 13 will introduce, – Dimi Dimitrov, representative of Wikimedia in Brussels, who talked about the impact of the Directive on […]

Despite some positive changes (a mandatory exception for text and data mining, the facilitation of making the works from collections of cultural heritage institutions available to the public online, ensuring that reproductions of visual artwork in the public domain is not subject to copyright, the right of authors to an appropriate and proportionate remuneration), the […]

Invited speakers will explore what women do in the different areas of openness, how women are fostering a culture of openness and collaboration and how they are changing the landscape in education, data, science and governance. We aim to map good practices that engage fellow women who want to get involved in Open Science, Open […]

Open education is a cluster of online resources, tools, good practices and networks of participants and supporters, which promotes access to learning materials and methods for students and teachers worldwide. Open education builds on the idea of free sharing and use of content (such as literature) and development of educational methods, adapted to the challenges […]

The Proposal was approved with 16 votes in favour and 9 votes against. It is now on the MEPs to say their final word on the faith of the Directive. This is expected to take place on the plenary session of the European Parliament between 25 and 28 March 2019. Despite some positive aspects the […]

Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Italy and Finland were against the proposal, while Slovenia and Belgium abstained from voting. The members states who were against explained in a joint statement that the Directive is a step back for a digital single market and that does not create balance between the protection of the right holders and the […]

Communia analized nine different issues regulated by the Directive and not only the most problematic Articles 11 and 13. Good and bad solutions of the Directive are presented. Despite some good solutions, the  overall assessment of the directive is negative and it will not make the internet work for people. The analysis was made on […]

The verdict is the following: 1) Article 13: – commercial sites and apps where users can upload their content must make best efforts to preemptively buy licences for the uploaded content, – all but very few sites will have to deploy upload filters to prevent unauthorised copying of a copyright work, – should a court […]

Italy, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta and Slovakia voted against the compromise solution of France and Germany that would introduce very strict conditions under which the platforms could be excluded from the scope of the Directive. Slovenia astained from the vote. The grant of the mandate will enable the Council to enter the final […]

Unfortunately, most of the member states of the EU still support the introduction of upload filters on the user-generated content platform, they just do not agree on the scope of the mandatory nature of the filters. France claims that filters sould apply to all platforms, regardless of size. Germany, on the other hand, advocated the […]

As it happens, Germany adopted a “model scale” of the new right in 2013 aimed specifically against web search engines, granting press publishers with an exclusive right to make the press product or parts thereof available to the public for commercial purposes, unless the use consists of individual words or very short text excerpts. Sounds […]

Plagiarism is an unethical and immoral act of a person stealing someone else’s work and presenting it as its own. With this act the person deceives the public, for example an academic community, the colleagues or the audience. Infringement of copyright, on the other hand, is a use of a copyright work without the authorization […]

You are kindly invited to the lecture of Urša Chitrakar regarding copyright, that will be held on the 23th of January at 7 PM!

The provision will ensure that reproductions of works in the public domain can no longer be protected by copyright or neighbouring rights (as it is still the case in some member states such as Spain and Germany). This means that someone who will photograph a painting in the public domain, for instance, will not be able […]

These barriers are not present either because rightholders voluntarily allow the use of their work or because copyright protection expires. Works that do not meet the condition of originality or are excluded from protection (such as data, ideas, methods of operation etc.) are also in the public domain. In the era when the Internet allows […]

This year, however, is a special one as also works, whose protection should have expired in 1998 but was extended by the US legislator for additional 20 years for a total of 95 years from their publication, will be entering the public domain. The list of works that became available for general use on January 1, […]

The provision obliges platforms, on which users upload contents (such as Facebook and YouTube), to automatically filter and block all the contents, for which licenses have not been concluded. Experts and academics are against the introduction of such filters and censorship, and the civil initiative is drawing attention to the negative impacts of the provision […]

Even though the deadline for its implementation set in Directive 2017/1564 is October 12, 2018, the majority of the member states has not yet transposed the Treaty and the Directive into national legislation. The European Commission therefore decided to initiate the proceedings for non-compliance against 17 members states, amongst which is also Slovenia. The proposed amendment […]

Big right holders have recently joined the users, independent creators, academics and experts, who have been warning about the negative effects the provision could have. On 1 December 2018, the representatives of the audio-visual and sports sectors active across the European markets gave a joint statement, in which the expressed their concern about the direction of […]

The right will benefit press publishers that are one of the main lobbyists for the new neighbouring right as they currently do not get paid by aggregators. In Europe a narrow interest group can persuade the legislators with simple but loud arguments. To the detriment of all.

Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part of the event.

Next week we start with one-to-one mentorships conducted by Maja Bogataj Jančič, Gasper Koren, Nejc Matjaž and Miro Kline. Since the number of participants is limited you have to register on this link. Welcome!

You can read the report (in Slovene) here (the holder of all economic rights on the work is LEXPERA d.o.o.).

Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič from the Intellectual Property Institute also attended the event.

Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič from the Intellectual Property Institute presented on Exception for education on the panel Public Interest Perspectives on EU Copyright Reform.

European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) is the leading scientific association for the economics and law of Intellectual Property. The EPIP 2018 conference was held in Berlin, 4-7 September 2018, where the statement was drafted. On Wednesday, 12 September 2018, the European Parliament will vote in plenary session on the heavily lobbied proposed Directive on […]

As such they have supported the new neighbouring right for press publishers (Article 11) and the new obligation of platforms to license and filter content (Article 13). This is not good for the future of the internet in the EU. Platforms that have been obliged to technological neutrality and not to tamper with the content […]

On Friday, September 7, 2018 the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana hosted a roundtable entitled “Europe needs a good copyright reform” that was organized by the Intellectual Property Institute, the Institute for Comparative Law, the institute Danes je nov dan, the institute Citizen D and the initiative Opening Up Slovenia. The event […]

We would like to thank all the participants that have kindly responded to the invitation and actively participated in the debate. Also, we would to thank all the participants who attended the roundtable either live or on the Internet. You can watch the short introductory video as well as the video of the whole roundtable. The […]

““I would like to participate in BTT because I would like to want about the importance of ethical and legal aspects of the development of the blockchain technology and especially its implementation in the economy and society. I believe that these aspects need to be considered at all stages of development, in order to add […]

Europe needs good copyright reform! But current proposal is not good! Internet is not just a marketplace for copyrighted works, it is also a space for communication and exchange. Europe deserves better!

The anomaly on the publicity money-sharing market exists, but copyright law is not the right mechanism to solve this problem. The tax would only enforce the position of Google against its competitors and have a negative effect on the plurality of media in the long term.

More on the event here. A video of the event is available here.

More on the event here. A video of the event is available here.

Internet is not only a big market for different content and services but was and should stay a place for free communication and the exchange of information as well as ideas!

Learn more here.

Read this very informative article on what needs to be done to improve current copyright for better education.

You can read the whole article (in Slovene) here (the holder of all economic rights is LEXPERA d.o.o.).

The summer course was held at the majestic setting of Amsterdam’s Royal Tropical Institute and divided into nine seminars, given during morning or afternoon sessions. Every seminar focused on one specific issue of copyright law, which participants explored in depth with top ranking lecturers on international copyright issues from the Netherlands, USA and Belgium. With […]

You can listen to the podcast (in Slovene) here.