November 2021 - reCreating Europe

Webinar (10 December) Accessing Digital Culture: Barriers for Vulnerable Groups

November 30, 2021/0 Comments/in News, Activities, End users, WP2 /by Rosie Allison

Date: 10 December 2021

Time: 10:00 to 12:00 GMT / 11:00 – 13:00 CET

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accessing-digital-culture-barriers-for-vulnerable-groups-tickets-218051908127

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This webinar aims to present the research conducted within the Project Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe – ReCreating Europe by the Maynooth University unit. After a general introduction on the project, it discusses the preliminary findings and interim results of a set of semi-structured interviews conducted across 12 European countries with key stakeholders and representatives of organisations representing both Minority Groups and Persons with Disabilities about the barriers they encounter in accessing digital culture.

Programme

10:00 – 10:15: Welcome and Introduction – The regulatory framework of copyright content moderation at EU Level
Speakers: Delia Ferri and Noelle Higgins

Session 1 – The Project

Chair: Delia Ferri

10:15 – 10:30: The ReCreating Europe Project and Access to Digital Culture
Speaker: Caterina Sganga

10:30 – 10:45: Work Package 2 on End Users

Speaker: Arianna Martinelli

Session 2 – Barriers for Vulnerable Groups

Chair: Caterina Sganga

10:45 – 11:00: Objectives, Methodology, General Preliminary Findings
Speaker: Katie Donnellan

11:00 – 11:15 – Minorities and Access to Digital Culture

Speaker: Noelle Higgins

11:15 – 11:30: Persons with Disabilities and Access to Digital Culture

Speaker: Delia Ferri

Speakers

Delia Ferri, Professor of Law at Maynooth University and Co-director of the Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute at Maynooth University.

Noelle Higgins, Associate Professor in Law at Maynooth University.

Caterina Sganga, Associate Professor in Comparative Private Law at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) and ReCreating Europe project coordinator.

Arianna Martinelli, Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the Institute of Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Leader of Work Package 2 of the ReCreating Europe Project

Katie Donnellan, Research Assistant for the Maynooth University team of the ReCreating Europe Project, at the Maynooth University Department of Law

Registration and target audience

The webinar is free and open to all but will be targeted specifically at:

Academics, researchers and law students;
national and EU policymakers in the area of copyright law and human rights;
lawyers in the areas of copyright law and human rights law;
civil society organisations engaged with copyright and minority rights issues in the EU, and;
End-Users (as Project stakeholders), and in particular the project’s nominated categories of underrepresented categories who were the subjects of the interviews (Persons with Disabilities, Migrants, Members of Linguistic Minorities and Members of Ethnic Minorities, including Roma).

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Webinar (6 December) Automated Content Moderation: Copyright and Controversial Content

November 23, 2021/0 Comments/in Activities /by Rosie Allison

Date: 6 Dec 2021

Time: 10AM-11:30AM CET

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrduqpqTsvGNb49iXQLXZRzeWvgR9yVy0p

Description

This webinar will address the current status and future avenues in automated content moderation with a focus on copyright, and its implications for cultural diversity and access.

The way platforms moderate has received increasing scrutiny and public attention over in recent years and months. With a view to copyright, the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) has raised severe concerns that the included liability rules drive platforms to employ automated filtering and moderation systems much more broadly than before. This might, in turn, result in the ‘overblocking’ of non-infringing content and structurally reduce diversity and access to culture on online platforms.

With the CDSM now being implemented in national law, this webinar follows up on the webinar previous one on the Regulatory Landscape for Copyright Content Moderation. It and takes stock of current developments and discusses potential implications for diversity and access to culture.

In particular, the webinar will provide attendants participants with an overview, update, and critical discussion of the following key topics:

Overview of the platforms’ deployment of automated content moderation systems with a focus on copyright;
Learnings from the implications of automated content moderation systems for copyright and other forms of contested content such as hate speech;
Discussion of implications for diversity and access to culture;
Options and challenges in researching automated content moderation and its implications;
Potential avenues for (automated) content moderation in the context of current EU regulation and its implications for diversity and access to culture.

Target Audience

Scholars in the field of social media and platform governance research
Policy makers and journalists working on digital policy
Company representatives in policy and technology departments

Speakers

Christian Katzenbach, Professor of Media and Communication, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen

João Vieira Magalhães, Assistant Professor in Media, Politics and Democracy, University of Groningen

Paloma Viejo Otero, Postdoctoral Researcher, Dublin City University,

Julia Reda, GFF / Society for Civil Rights,

Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez, Senior lecturer in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology,

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Workshop (9 December) Secondary Publishing Right — Exploring Opportunities and Limitations

November 19, 2021/0 Comments/in Activities, Galleries, Libraries, Museums & Archives, News, Workshops & Conferences, WP5 /by Rosie Allison

Date: 9 December 2021

Time: 10:00 – 11:30 CET

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdOutqj4qHNdAyJZxelxbu_6j2GMmcwpw

Focusing on the Green Road, this workshop aims to present and discuss the second (or secondary) publication right within the context of scientific publications as a key instrument to implementing Open Access (OA). Five models will be presented from across Europe; Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, France and Belgium.

This workshop is co-organised with members of the reCreating Europe project and LIBER.

Topic

The workshop will elaborate on the second publication right which consists of the right to re-publish and communicate a work to the public. This right could be retained by the author by means of contract negotiations (to which disbalancing conditions may apply), but it is rarely applied in the current publishing context.

The right could also be granted by legislation which appears to be a more practicable and sustainable option. At present, only a handful of countries offer such a possibility, still with many limitations, despite the potential of such a right to rebalance the current distorted ecosystem of scientific communication (where scientific authors have little freedom and control over their thoughts and works).

Target Audience

This workshop is specifically tailored for libraries and archives and will include presentations and lively discussions. No prior knowledge of secondary publishing rights is necessary to participate.

* Note that this workshop has been shifted online due to the cancellation of the LIBER Winter Event (9th – 10th December 2021).