The MEPs supported the Proposal for the Directive
“The European Parliament has voted on the Proposal for the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market. MEPs did not hear the warnings of the experts (lastly, economic and legal academics called for a more balanced system).
As such they have supported the new neighbouring right for press publishers (Article 11) and the new obligation of platforms to license and filter content (Article 13). This is not good for the future of the internet in the EU. Platforms that have been obliged to technological neutrality and not to tamper with the content will have to control and delete content.
I hope to see the Proposal of the Directive at least fixed by the European Commission and Council in the trilogue. The current proposals are even worse than the JURI Committee proposal from July. This would be better for us all.
I hope to see more focus on the educational exception, the text and data mining exception and other exception safeguarding the public interest in the trilogue.
This is not a happy day for creators in the EU neither it is for the journalists and the plurality of the media, at least not in the long term. This is why I hope they will receive payment for their works by big platforms.
If the Proposal is adopted, this will radically change what, under which terms and at what cost (for the cost of free and neutral internet, thus freedom and neutral possibilities of sharing content) will be available. It is time for legislators to listen to experts and not only the most powerful and loud lobbyists.” This statement was given by dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič for STA.
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.