Open Knowledge Day 2021
On 20 January, Intellectual Property Institute will, in cooperation with the Today is a new day institute, Aksioma and Creative Commons organise the traditional event “Open Knowledge Day 2021”. The event will take place online, welcome!
This year, the Open Knowledge Day will focus on the new Directive on copyright and related rights in the digital single market and will consist of two parts:
Copyright exceptions and limitations in the new Directive, related to education, libraries, and data analytics.
The first part of the event will be moderated by dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, LL.M., LL.M. and will include the speakers doc. dr. Katarina Krapež, University of Primorska, mag. Miro Pušnik, the president of the National Council for Library Services, CTK, and Marko Grobelnik, Jožef Stefan Institute, IRCAI.
Art 17 of the new Directive – a safeguard or censorship?
In the second part, which will be moderated by Filip Dobranić, Today is a new day, the guest speaker will be Julia Reda, former MEP and the lead in the Project Control © at the German Society for Civil Rights. Art 17 will then be discussed by Saša Krajnc, Register.si, phd candidate at the Law Faculty, University of Vienna, and a copyright specialist, Domen Savič, digital activist, and a representative of the authors.
You can access the entire programme here.
The event will take place on 21 January 2021 from 16:00 until 18:30 CET through Facebook Live, and is accessible here. Welcome!
On 23rd of November, 2021, the European Commission has published two reports in the field of copyright, as required by Directives 2014/26/EU (CRM Directive) and 2019/790 (DSM Directive). They are supported by two studies: Study on emerging issues on collective licensing management in the digital environment, and Study on selected issues relating to the application of the CRM Directive.
A new book “Law and Artificial Intelligence: Issues of Ethics, Human Rights and Social Harm” was published (Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of law in Ljubljana, 2021), the editors of which are prof. dr. Aleš Završnik and dr. Katja Simončič. The author of one of the articles is also dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, LL.M., LL.M., who wrote an article on the topic of whether artificial intelligence can be an author of a copyright work.
Jožef Štefan Institute is organising GO-DIP workshop series, first of them coming on November 19th, 2021 is revolving around software IP and data agreements. The GO-DIP project aims to increase the competencies of knowledge generators and intermediaries. At 15.10 dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, LL.M., LL.M. will be lecturing in the Workshop: Development of a checklist for model digital IP agreements. Welcome!
2nd GPAI Summit will occur from 11-12 November, 2021 in Paris, France. Leading international AI experts from civil society, academia, industry and governments, including ministerial-level delegates from GPAI’s Membership, will come together for GPAI’s annual event. This public-facing event will include reporting on the ten Working Groups’ study topics, including the reporting of Data Governance Working Group (DG WG). Public conferences will be broadcasted live on GPAI’s Youtube channel. Welcome!