The Third Summer School of Democracy and Human Rights
In September, Udesin institute held a three-day summer school of Democracy and Human Rights that emphasized the importance of Freedom.
The central theme of the third summer school of Democracy and Human Rights was FREEDOM. For this reason, the panel discussions revolved around bounderies of parliamentary democracy, bounderies of free market, freedom of speech, freedom of media and freedom of publishing market. The Third Summer School of Democracy and Human Rights ended with two workshops: the workshop on Freedom in Widespread Migration with Khalid Ali, Zaher Amini and Jernej Kastelic, and the Workshop on Freedom of the Internet and Copyright with dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, founder of the Intellectual Property Institute.
The French government has a new plan for Europe that could help the EU compete with the US tech giants: the digital commons.
The International Association of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), PAC Centre for digital preservation, hosted at the National Library of Poland is holding a series of 10 webinars on basic understanding of digitisation projects.
Communia, a non-governmental organisation that advocates for policies that expand the public domain and increase access to and reuse of culture and knowledge, issued twenty new copyright policy recommendations for the next decade.
The DSM Directive entered into force in June 2019 and the deadline for implementation expired on 7 June 2021. On 23 June 2021, the Commission launched multiple infringement procedures and sent letters of formal notice to Slovenia and 22 other Member States that had failed to notify it of the full transposition of the Directive. Slovenia remains among the 14 Member States against which the Commission is continuing the infringement procedure. On 19 May 2022, the Commission sent reasoned opinions to Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, France, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden.