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.
On September 16, 2023, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič participated in the event @Re:Source MAH – the 10th International Conference on Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. The program was divided into various categories (“tracks”), specifically focusing on the documentation and preservation of media arts; climate change; pioneers of media arts; and the history of media arts in museums.
The U.S. Copyright Office has once again denied the registration of an artwork created by artificial intelligence. Artist Jason M. Allen was unsuccessful in his second attempt to register the artwork “Theatre D’opera Spatial” as a copyrighted work because it contains more than a de minimis amount of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
On Friday 23 June 2023, a webinar entitled “Copyright and Legal Basis for Generative Artificial Intelligence Training” was held as the inaugural event of an informal research network in the region in the field of copyright. Researchers from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedonia participated in the event, which is part of the national Open Knowledge Day initiative and the national and regional coordination activities carried out by ODIPI under the auspices of Knowledge Rights 21.
The new report of the Knowledge Rights 21 project partner SPARC Europe is now available.