Authors Alliance and Knowledge Rights 21 are pleased to announce the launch of a new project, “Giving Voice to Authors,”…

Authors Alliance and Knowledge Rights 21 are pleased to announce the launch of a new project, “Giving Voice to Authors,”…
In spring this year, the European Commission invited a range of stakeholders, including Knowledge Rights 21, to a workshop to discuss the findings of a series of academic and research papers published last year commissioned by DG Research, Technology and Development (DG RTD).…
A webinar on 23 June will explore how EU law around copyright and its implementation affects the training of generative…
[ENGLISH BELOW] Dans un récent article, Le Monde a donné l’espace au président de l’Association française des éditeurs pour faire…
Despite its claims, the European Commission’s draft Directive on common rules promoting the repair of goods fails to ensure that…
On 22 May 2023, Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation will host an international conference on intellectual property law for libraries and archives…
Last Friday, the US Federal Judge overseeing the Hachette vs Internet Archive case issued their judgement, broadly accepting the arguments of publishers against the Archive’s use of Controlled Digital Lending.
The decision, unfortunately, pays little attention to the value of the work of libraries, and in particular of lending.
While regrettable, this decision is of little relevance to Europe, where secure forms of digital lending can take place under a specific legal basis. …
The Netherlands has not one, but two, copyright Acts. One that is applicable to the European Netherlands and is compliant with EU law and a second act that is applicable solely to the Caribbean Netherlands, the islands of Bonaire, St. Eustatius (‘Statia’), and Saba (known collectively as the BES). KR21 has recommended to the Dutch government to abolish the Act that is specific to this small region of the country and to apply the European Netherlands’ Act to the BES, as the current situation is limiting access to information, knowledge and culture for the inhabitants of this part of the Netherlands. …
1/3/2023 According to the Irish Examiner, the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has started to examine the restrictive…