copyright Archives – Knowledge Rights 21

Thu, 20 Jul

Knowledge Rights 21 to work with Authors Alliance to raise the voice of authors who care about the public interest

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

Address the Mess: European Commission Workshop on Research, Access and Copyright

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).…

Tue, 20 Jun

Open Knowledge Day: legal bases in copyright for training generative AI models

A webinar on 23 June will explore how EU law around copyright and its implementation affects the training of generative…

Mon, 15 May

Don Quichotte, Médée ou l’Avare ? Pourquoi faut-il résister à l’opposition des éditeurs français au zéro embargo sur l’accès à la science

[ENGLISH BELOW] Dans un récent article, Le Monde a donné l’espace au président de l’Association française des éditeurs pour faire…

Tue, 11 Apr

Still time to repair the Commission proposal on the right to repair

Despite its claims, the European Commission’s draft Directive on common rules promoting the repair of goods fails to ensure that…

Fri, 7 Apr

International conference on intellectual property law for libraries and archives

On 22 May 2023, Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation will host an international conference on intellectual property law for libraries and archives…

Tue, 28 Mar

Internet Archive judgement: A very partial decision

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. …

Two for one? KR21 recommends that the Netherlands abolishes its ‘spare’ copyright act

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. …