European Rights Retention Community of Practice – Eighth Meeting

When? What? This Community of Practice is an online collaborative space designed to bring together professionals to discuss and tackle the challenges around rights retention…

Blog post by Stephen Wyber The months between now and the end of the year are likely to be among the most intense of this…

Blog post by Pirjo Kangas Across Europe, the movement to reclaim control over scholarly outputs is gaining momentum, including in Finland, where the Finnish University…

Blog post by Signe Krantz There will have been a before and an after the Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy 2026 at…

Blog post by Mariana Harjevschi The recent adoption of the Regulation on Open Science in the Republic of Moldova marks an important milestone in the…

Blog post by Ana Lazarova Libraries are essential infrastructures for research, education, culture, and lifelong learning. Every day, academic, public, research, and school libraries connect…

Blog post by Benjamin White A Study of 100 Contracts, published by Knowledge Rights 21, shines a light on the critical issue that contracts severely undermine…

Blog post by Stephen Wyber The Digital Omnibus on Data, the first major piece of legislation to reach the European Parliament and Council in the…

Blog post by Stephen Wyber Throughout the second half of 2026, Irish representatives will take charge of the vast majority of meetings of the European…

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…

Blog post by Stephen Wyber Stop Killing Games is just the 14th European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) in as many years to have received the over…

Blog Post by Dr Konrad Gliściński LL.M. (Intellectual Property Law Chair JU/ Centrum Cyfrowe) Research today is international, digital, data-intensive, and collaborative by default. Scientists…

Blog post by Stephen Wyber It is looking increasingly likely that a secondary publication right (SPR) will feature on the European Union’s legislative agenda in…

Blog post by Deborah De Angelis On 10 June 2026, the conference “Open Science through the Prism of the European Research Area (ERA) Act: The Work…

Blog post by Stephen Wyber Last week marked International Archives Week (8–12 June 2026), leaving behind a question worth lingering on:  why do we remember?…

When? What? This Community of Practice is an online collaborative space designed to bring together professionals to discuss and tackle the challenges around rights retention…

Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) has signed the Our Future Memory Statement on the Four Digital Rights of Memory Institutions. We join the International Federation of…

Blog post by Ana Lazarova On May 14, 2026, the Sofia University Library “St. Kliment Ohridski” – the academic library of Bulgaria’s oldest and largest…

Blog post by Mariana Harjevschi On 23 and 24  April 2026, coinciding with World Book and Copyright Day, the National Workshop on Public Lending Right…

Blog post by Stephen Wyber In the past weeks, we have seen the launch of two consultations relating to the European Union’s legislation about copyright,…