« This article argues that recent strategies of the European Union in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) resemble a football team missing a goal-scorer to win any of the competitions with other jurisdictions having more flexible limitations to copyright, in particular with those allowing robust text and data mining (TDM)…
Pan-European Model Law for the Use of Publicly Funded Scientific Publications
« LIBER’s Executive Board has in June 2020 unanimously approved a pan-European model law concerning secondary publishing rights. The model law was initially proposed by two of LIBER’s working groups — Copyright & Legal Matters…
« In a post last week, we looked at the importance of being able to explain why non-investment in libraries matters. (…)
So just as we need to be able to talk about the cost of not investing financially in libraries, we should also learn to set…
(…) Target audience
Open Science policymakers, Research Funding Organizations and Research Performing Organizations managers, librarians, repository managers and academic institutional copyright experts. (…) »
« This week is Fair use and Fair dealing week, organised by the Association of Research Libraries! It is a week to celebrate these doctrines implemented in many countries all around the world and the copyright provisions that allow libraries to benefit from flexibility to continue their missions.…
« As a society publisher, I have been struggling to understand how best to serve our mathematical community on issues of copyright, Creative Commons licensing, and openness.
I am concerned that as publishers we are moving ahead of our authors and readers and not considering what may…
« In Part two of this interview post, I continue to grill an eloquent group of stakeholders with a wide range of views about the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) and Creative Commons licensing. As we soak in these quite subtle approaches to what is a complex problem, I hope…
« The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), together with the Dutch consortium of university libraries and the National library of The Netherlands (UKB) and The Dutch Research Council (NWO), has published a handy guide on licensing of scientific publications and teaching materials. (…) »
« Dans une décision fort attendue et rendue le 22 avril 2020 relativement à l’affaire York University contre Access Copyright, la Cour d’appel fédérale a annulé la décision de la juridiction antérieure.
Access Copyright ne peut exiger des paiements obligatoires ni poursuivre l’Université de York pour violation des droits d’auteur.…
« During this unprecedented global emergency, LIBER calls on European Commissioners, Member State governments, publishers and authors to urgently help libraries, universities and other educational establishments, so that they can continue supplying researchers, teachers and students with access to books, archives and other instructional materials. (…) »
