Recordings of Communia webinars on the new DSM Directive are available online!
As we reported last month, Communia held four webinars between 16 and 24 June, discussing the implementation of the new EU Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. Now, the recordings of all four webinars are available online. You are welcome to watch them!
Communia uploaded video recordings from four webinars that addressed the following provisions of the new DSM Directive:
– Press Publishers’ Right (Art. 15);
– Text and Data Mining and Education Exceptions (Arts. 3-5);
– Use of Content by Online Platforms (Art. 17);
– Cultural Heritage Provisions (Arts. 6, 8-11, 14).
You can watch the video recordings here.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that maintains the Open Library, a digital library index, and is dedicated to preserving knowledge. As many of the works in the Internet Archive are under copyright, the Archive uses a system of controlled digital lending based on digital rights management to prevent unauthorized downloading or copying of copyrighted books. In March 2020, due to the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet Archive established the National Emergency Library, eliminating the waiting lists used in the Open Library and expanding access to books for all readers. In June 2020, the Emergency National Library faced a lawsuit from four book publishers and was ultimately closed.
The 43rd session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (hereinafter SCCR) made substantial progress on the issues advocated by the A2K Coalition (Access to Knowledge Coalition), which IPI is a member of. This year’s session was the most productive on the issues of exceptions and limitations. James Love (Knowledge Ecology International), a long-time observer at WIPO, described the outcome and the impact of the public interest community as the strongest since the conclusion of the Marrakech Treaty, which brought global copyright exceptions for the benefit of the blind and visually impaired.
Today, March 17, 2023, a symposium on law in the information society is taking place in the golden lecture hall of the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will present copyright aspects of artificial intelligence at the symposium.
The third day of the 43rd session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is intended for discussion on the topic of exceptions and limitations to copyright, especially in connection with the right to research.