USA and Slovenia open science policy
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has updated the 2013 memorandum guaranteeing free public access to the results of publicly funded research and research data – including in a machine-readable format – without additional barriers and immediately upon publication. The regulation was welcomed by the Washington College of Law and PIJIP‘s Project on the right to research and international copyright. Representatives emphasized that public access to scientific work financed from public sources should be universal.
IPI, who is a PIJIP partner, echoes the sentiment. In Slovenia, on the basis of the Horizon Europe Regulation and the Scientific Research and Innovation Activities Act, a government regulation on open science is being adopted, which will regulate practical issues related to open access in more detail. In accordance with the law regulating research, the regulation should have been issued by April 2022 at the latest.
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.