Celebrating World IP day 2022 with CJEU (C-401/19)
World IP day 2022 was marked by the CJEU release of the highly anticipated judgement in case C-401/19, Poland v Council and Parliament. At IPI, this day is traditionally celebrated by rounding up the pros and cons of last year’s IP landscape in Slovenia.
The previous year was marked by the troublesome implementation of the DSM Directive in Slovenia. With the interest and professional support expressed by the public for the implementation of the act – the deadline for which expired on 7 June 2021 – the biggest disappointment in 2021/2022 is the fact that the DSM Directive is still not implemented!
At the same time, this gives us hope that we can still correct the harmful provisions that are currently meant to implement the DSM Directive. In 2021, the interested public de facto took on the professional role of the government and the legislator and prepared a rich offer of proposals for implementation, which makes the implementation in line with the requirements of the CJEU in the new judgment C-401/19 possible and, after all, fairly easy on the legislator.
The Court ruled that, when transposing Article 17 of the Directive into national law, Member States must ensure that they rely on an interpretation of that provision which allows a fair balance to be struck between the various fundamental rights protected by the Charter.
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.