CIPPM’s online events
Center for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM), established under the auspices of University of Bournemouth, will hold several online events in the following weeks, including events relating to the implementation of the new Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive).
On Wednesday, 18 November CIPPM will, in collaboration with the EnDOW Community, organise an online event titled “Unlocking Orphan Films”, aimed at film lovers and at spreading the knowledge about orphan works. Attendance of the event is free of charge, but a prior registration is required. You can register here.
Exactly two weeks later, on 2 December CIPPM’s Observatory on transposition of Exceptions and Limitations, which was launched with the purpose of keeping an eye on implementation of the copyright exceptions and limitations within the DSM Directive, will hold a webinar on the DSM Directive implementation. The event will be a live workshop dealing especially with the Text and Data Mining exceptions (Articles 3 and 4) and the exception for Digital and Cross-border Teaching activities (Article 5). At the workshop, the implementation update for Slovenia will be presented by dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič. The workshop will be held via Zoom.
You are welcome to attend!
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that maintains the Open Library, a digital library index, and is dedicated to preserving knowledge. As many of the works in the Internet Archive are under copyright, the Archive uses a system of controlled digital lending based on digital rights management to prevent unauthorized downloading or copying of copyrighted books. In March 2020, due to the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet Archive established the National Emergency Library, eliminating the waiting lists used in the Open Library and expanding access to books for all readers. In June 2020, the Emergency National Library faced a lawsuit from four book publishers and was ultimately closed.
The 43rd session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (hereinafter SCCR) made substantial progress on the issues advocated by the A2K Coalition (Access to Knowledge Coalition), which IPI is a member of. This year’s session was the most productive on the issues of exceptions and limitations. James Love (Knowledge Ecology International), a long-time observer at WIPO, described the outcome and the impact of the public interest community as the strongest since the conclusion of the Marrakech Treaty, which brought global copyright exceptions for the benefit of the blind and visually impaired.
Today, March 17, 2023, a symposium on law in the information society is taking place in the golden lecture hall of the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will present copyright aspects of artificial intelligence at the symposium.
The third day of the 43rd session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is intended for discussion on the topic of exceptions and limitations to copyright, especially in connection with the right to research.