Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries adopted the Copyright Directive
Today, the Council of EU sealed the deal on the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market. After the publication of the official text of the Directive and its entry into force, the Member States will have two years to transfer the directive into their national legislation.
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 population of the EU, was enough to adopt the Directive. Today, 19 Member States, representing 71,26% of the population, were in favour of the Directive in the Council composed of the Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries. It is now on the Member States to implement the bad Directive into national legislation. Will they do that more or less automatically, in accordance with the “copy/translate/paste” method, or will they find better solutions where possible?
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.