by KR21 Guest | Jun 23, 2026 | National Insights, Netherlands, News Story
Blog post by Maarten ZeinstraSee also the Kluwer Copyright Blog post by Ariadna Matas and Maarten In November 2025, Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) reported on the systemic challenges facing the Out-of-Commerce (OOC) regime under the EU Copyright in the Digital Single... 
by KR21 | Mar 19, 2024 | National Insights, Netherlands, News Story, Uncategorized
Who, What, Where, Employer Copyright Maarten Zeinstra, KR21’s national coordinator, contributed an article to the national InformatieProfessional magazine. In it, he explores a pressing question Dutch universities face: who owns the rights to academic publications or... 
by KR21 Guest | Mar 19, 2024 | National Insights, Netherlands, News Story, publishing rights
Navigating the complex landscape of Rights Retention (RR) and Secondary Publishing Rights (SPR) policies in the Netherlands is a task undertaken by Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21), an advocate for academic freedom and access to knowledge. In this exploration, we delve into... 
by KR21 Guest | Nov 17, 2023 | eBooks, National Insights, Netherlands, News Story
Publishers’ Growing Control In The Digital Age On the occasion of the start of the academic year, Maarten Zeinstra (KR21’s national coordinator for the Netherlands) wrote about academic libraries’ challenges to ensure access to knowledge in e-books and e-textbooks as... 
by KR21 Guest | Nov 8, 2023 | National Insights, Netherlands, News Story
Follow the Money Exposing the Cost of ‘Free’ Scientific Research Journalist Wasima Khan dives for Follow the Money into how the government in the Netherlands pays for ‘free’ scientific research, while big academic publishers make hundreds of millions. For her research... 
by KR21 Guest | Mar 6, 2023 | National Insights, Netherlands, News Story
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...