Open Knowledge Day in Pravna praksa
“The main event hosted different lecturers who presented different building blocks of the open knowledge. During the day, there were many other events; the Slovenian chapter of Creative Commons was established and the exhibition Create a work that’s not yours took place in the evening.”
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.
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