Join us for a webinar on the May 2024 European Commission study identifying copyright and other barriers faced by the European research sector.
When?
- Date: 29 October, 2024
- Time: 10:30-11:30 CET / 09:30-10:30 BST
What?
This webinar, from one of the co-authors, will outline some of the main recommendations contained in the European Commission Report “Improving access to and reuse of research results, publications and data for scientific purposes”.
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The Webinar
This wide-ranging study identifies many of the barriers faced by European researchers alongside a number of important regulatory recommendations. The timing of the study is particularly opportune – coming weeks after the landmark Enrico Letta report. Importantly it calls for scientific research to be explicitly recognised as a core regulatory objective of the EU
A number of important themes emerge from the report:
- Evaluation of the nature and form of a secondary publishing right.
- The need to introduce a flexible open research exception in EU law that supports knowledge valorisation.
- How cutting-edge research, such as AI, is being undermined by uncertainties around the interplay of contracts and licences, technical protection measures and a lack of appropriate exceptions to allow sharing of data with project partners.
- The importance of ensuring that publicly funded research is available to those that fund it – the public, ranging from citizens through to commercial entities.
Evidence and conclusions from the study that KR21 found particularly important include:
- 80% of researchers face significant barriers due to a lack of subscriptions to access copyright knowledge resources.
- 60% of participants find paywalls and technological protection measures to be a major obstacle in accessing copyrighted online resources.
- 81.4% advocated that the copyright law should contain an open-ended clause that generally permits the use of copyright-protected knowledge resources for all kinds of research purposes.
- The conclusion that “TPM (Technological protection measures) in conjunction with online contracts currently have substantial legal backing often prevailing over research freedom.”
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning is being avoided as researchers “are afraid of copyright infringement.”
Why You Should Attend
The study, commissioned by DG RTD, represents arguably a landmark focus in terms of the regulatory regime for research in Europe, given the focus it places on copyright, author rights, licensing etc. It identifies significant barriers to research-driven innovation in Europe and the establishment of the European Research Area, something particularly timely given the issuance of the Letta and Draghi reports in April and September 2024 respectively. The webinar gives you the opportunity to learn more about A webinar on the May 2024 European Commission study identifying copyright and other barriers faced by the European research sector.
Programme
Presentation followed by a Q&A session.
Speaker:
- Caterina Sganga – Professor of Comparative Private Law, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna | Pisa, Italy
Relevant Resources
- Blog Post | Time for the EU to step into line with its global competitors – A new Commission study on research accessibility and reuse
- Study | EC May 2024 study on improving access to and reuse of research results, publications and data for scientific purposes Learn more about the challenges outlined in A webinar on the May 2024 European Commission study identifying copyright and other barriers faced by the European research sector.
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