World Intellectual Property Day
Today, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day. Traditionally, IPI announces the most notable event of the past year on this day. Without doubt, this was for sure the adoption of the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market.
You can read more on the different aspects of the Directive and the changes it will introduce on the following links:
– The Directive is still bad!
– About the Directive
– Internet is for the people
In Slovenia, the most notable event in the negative sense was a severe infringement of moral and economic rights, committed by Boris Kobal, which resulted in the biggest plagiarism affair in Slovenia. We hope that after this affair, it is now clear to everybody that plagiarism is a wrongful and unethical act that can have huge negative effects for the plagiarist. Also, the Republic of Slovenia started implementing the renovated exception for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled in the Copyright and Related Rights Act.
Different changes of the copyright legislation are therefore on the horizon. We hope that we will see many positive changes in this field in the next year!
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.