April 2022 - reCreating Europe

Call for Papers – Rethinking copyright flexibilities, Nicosia (31st October – 1st November)

April 22, 2022/in Activities /by Rosie Allison

The University of Cyprus, together with reCreating Europe, is conveying the conference “Rethinking copyright flexibilities”. The event will take place on 31 October – 1 November 2022 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cyprus, in Nicosia, and will be offered in a blended format.
The aim of the conference is to critically discuss the state of the art and evolution of copyright flexibilities in Europe, particularly in light of the most recent interventions of the EU legislators and landmark decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU.

Programme

Day 1 of the conference will feature two academic panels with invited speakers and one roundtable hosting policy makers, judges and representative from the civil society. The program will be published online soon.

Day 2 will feature three panels and one PhD workshop, devoted to the discussion of work-in-progress papers or recently published articles. We welcome contributions that address the following topics in an EU and comparative perspective:

copyright exceptions and limitations
copyright internal limits
copyright and the public domain
copyright and fundamental/human rights
extended and mandatory collective licensing schemes
exhaustion, digital exhaustion and the right to repair
balancing of copyright law with competition law and consumer law
copyright flexibilities in platform regulation

Submissions

Abstracts, no longer than 300 words, should be sent to copyrightflexibilities@gmail.com. The application should indicate whether the contribution has already been published or is a work in progress and whether the author(s) are available to join the conference in person or online. Preference will be given to applicants willing to make in-person presentations. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of July.

Deadline: 30th June 2022

For any inquiries, please contact copyrightflexibilities@gmail.com

Scientific Committee

Eleni-Tatiana Synodinou, University of Cyprus
Caterina Sganga, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and reCreating Europe

With the contribution of

Sixth Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Szeged (WIPS)

April 22, 2022/in Activities, Galleries, Libraries, Museums & Archives, News, WP5 /by Rosie Allison

Organisers: reCreating Europe, inDICEs, University of Szeged. Co-funded by the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office.

Venue: The local building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged, Hungary (Somogyi Street 7., Szeged, Hungary)

Registration: Register here

LIVESTREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAQr_SNx9A

The Institute of Comparative Law and Legal Theory (University of Szeged, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences) will host the 6th annual Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Szeged (WIPS) on June 9-10, 2022 in Szeged (Hungary). Launched in 2016, WIPS is organized by the University of Szeged to explore current issues in intellectual property law in an open, discussion-based way for both senior and junior academia.

This year’s WIPS is dedicated to three main tracks. First, copyright-related aspects of the GLAM sector will be discussed by our presenters and during the training part of the event. Second, the overlaps of competition law and intellectual property law will be addressed. Third, the challenges of modern technology to copyright law will be discussed.

Programme

(Please note that the below programme may be subject to change)

June 9th

9:00 – 9:05: Welcome address, Péter Mezei (University of Szeged)

9:05 – 10:40: GLAM@HOME Panel #1

Panel chair: Péter Mezei (University of Szeged)

9:05 – 9:35: KEYNOTE – Maurizio Borghi (University of Torino): Rethinking the Commons in the Age of Data Capitalism
9:35 – 9:50: Camille Françoise (Creative Commons): Open Culture, Brighter Future? A Copyright Policy Outlook [Author of the paper: Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons)]
9:50 – 10:05: Marta Arisi (University of Trento), Magali Contardi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Giulia Dore (University of Trento), Caterina Sganga (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) & Pelin Turan (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna): Copyright and Access to Cultural Heritage in the EU: Comparative Perspectives on Freedom of Panorama and Reproduction of Public Domain Art
10:05 – 10:20: Cristiana Sappa (IÉSEG School of Management) & Enrico Bonadio (City University): Digitalization Challenges and Opportunities for Copyright Law Stakeholders: GLAMs and Beyond
10:20 – 10:40: Q&A

10:40 – 11:10: Coffee break

11:10 – 12:30: GLAM@HOME Panel #2

Panel chair: Maurizio Borghi (University of Torino)

11:10 – 11:25: Svjetlana Ivanović (University of East Sarajevo): Digitisation of Cultural Heritage – Access to Out-of-Commerce Works
11:25 – 11:40: Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven): The Arcade of the Future: How the Out-of-Commerce Works Regime Can Empower Software Preservation Institutions and the Abandonware Community
11:40 – 11:55: Luis Javier Capote Pérez (University of La Laguna): Cultural Heritage and Videogames: IP Aspects of the Preservation of Software as Intangible Heritage – The Case of Spain [recorded presentation will be available]
11:55 – 12:10: Bohdan Widła (Jagiellonian University): The forgotten rights? Scientific editions and first editions in the age of the Digital Single Market
12:10 – 12:30: Q&A

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch break

13:30 – 15:30: GLAM@HOME Training

Panel chair: Giulia Dore (University of Trento)

13:30 – 14:30: Péter Mezei (University of Szeged) & Ioanna Lapatoura (University of Nottingham): Cultural preservation and NFTs
14:30 – 15:30: Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven) and Marta Arisi (University of Trento): Using participative tools for problem solving in the cultural heritage sector – a copyright exercise presented by inDICEs and Recreating Europe

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 – 17:20: Junior track

Panel chair: István Harkai (University of Szeged)

16:00 – 16:15: Roya Pary Bouery (University Lyon 3 Jean Moulin): The role of the GLAM sector in the preservation of European cultural heritage: the restitution of artefacts looted during World War II
16:15 – 16:30: Eetu Huhta (University of Eastern Finland): Intermediary Liability at the Intersection of Copyright law and the Digital Services Act
16:30 – 16:45: Wojciech Biernacki (Adam Mickiewicz University): Data, Information, Knowledge – the Relevance of the Distinction for the Exchange of Non-Personal Data
16:45 – 17:00: Jorge Villalobos Portalés (University of Málaga): Artificial Intelligence as a Right Holder in Intellectual Property and Its Omission as Anticompetitive Practice Against Consumers
17:00 – 17:15: Flóra Anna Gubicz (Hungarian Intellectual Property Office): Will the OOC regime be the long-awaited game-changer for mass digitalisation?
17:15 – 17:40: Q&A

June 10th

9:00 – 10:00: Consumer protection and IP overlaps

Panel chair: Ioannis Revolidis (University of Malta)

9:00 – 9:15: Kacper Szkalej (Lund University): Exhaustion of the Making Available Right in Respect of Consumptive Use of Legal Digital Content – A Theory
9:15 – 9:30: Simon Geiregat (Ghent University): What Digital Content Consumers (Should) Want
09:30 – 10:00: Q&A
Qiang Yu (Shandong University of Science and Technology) & Alexey Ivanov (National Research University Higher School of Economics): Intellectual Property Protection at China’s E-Commerce Platforms: The Notice-Delete Rule and Unfair Competition [recorded presentation will be available]

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break

10:30 – 11:50: IP & technology

Panel chair: Philipp Homar (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

10:30 – 10:45: Ioannis Revolidis (University of Malta): The Riddle of NFTs: Déjà vu or a New Beginning?
10:45 – 11:00: Radim Charvát (Masaryk University): Legal Aspects of Non-Fungible Tokens in the Area of Intellectual Property
11:00 – 11:15: Antoni Rubí Puig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Tokenizing Attribution and Authenticity – Will NFTs Increase Trust in the Market for Artists’ Multiples?
11:15 – 11:30: Anikó Grad-Gyenge (BME Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences): Impact of the Development of European Law on the Change in the Exclusive Nature of Copyright
11:30 – 11:50: Q&A

11:50 – 12:00: Closing remarks, Péter Mezei (University of Szeged), Giulia Dore (University of Trento) and Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven)

Registration and attendance

Registration is free of charge and open to all. Due to precautionary measures regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of available seats/spots for the event will be limited.

All GLAM@HOME sessions on Day 1 (9th June) of the Workshop will be live-streamed.

The intended audience for this event is anyone working in academia, or practitioners (including lawyers and workers of cultural organisations) interested in the GLAM sector.

reCreating Europe and inDICEs have received funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (grant agreements No. 870626, 870792)

Open Up Museums! Prospects and challenges of Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion

April 20, 2022/in Activities, Galleries, Libraries, Museums & Archives, News, Workshops & Conferences /by Rosie Allison

Organizers: reCreating Europe, DANCING, inDICEs, with the collaboration of museums MuSe and Mart

Venues: MuSe (Trento) and Mart (Rovereto)

Registration: Register here

(Deadline: 18 May 2022, 23:59)

reCreating Europe – in collaboration with projects DANCING, inDICEs, and museums MuSe (Museo delle Scienze, Trento) and Mart (Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto) – presents a two-day itinerary workshop on 26-27 May 2022 to explore key issues and tools to promote openness in the cultural sector between law and practice.

Accessible event programme

Event poster

Programme

Day 1 – 26 May 2022
MuSe – Museo delle Scienze
Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38122 – Trento

09.00-09.40 — Registration

09.40-09.50 — Welcome: Patrizia Famà (MuSe)

09.50-10.00 — Opening remarks: Roberto Caso (University of Trento)

10.00-11.15 — Panel 1 “Museums, intellectual property, and access to culture”

Chaired by Giulia Dore (University of Trento)

With Kristina Pretrasova (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) – Collaborative making – connecting art education to cultural heritage collections as policy towards open
Marta Arisi (University of Trento) – Open Data and cultural establishments: a regulatory overview
Barbara Pasa (University of Venice Iuav) – Reproduction, reuse and open access
Fiona Macmillan (Birkbeck College, University of London) – Regulating Communities: Strategies for an Open Museum Sector
Konrad Gliściński (Jagiellonian University/Centrum Cyfrowe) – Who should adjust to whom? Public mission of cultural heritage institutions and copyright

11.15-11.45 — Coffee break

11.45-13.00 — Panel 2 “Barriers to access to digital culture for vulnerable groups, inclusivity and the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty”

Chaired by Lorenzo Beltrame (University of Trento)

Delia Ferri and Katie Donnellan (Maynooth University) – Barriers to access digital cultural content: Experiences of Vulnerable Groups
Giulia Rossello (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) – Access to printed material for people with visual impairments and the Marrakesh Treaty: Evidence from the ReCreating Europe survey
Sofie Taes (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) – ‘Is this me? Unheard, unseen, misrepresented: a community-driven approach to more expressive and inclusive digital heritage collections
Federica Facchetti and Alessia Fassone (Museo Egizio) – Museo Egizio: In and Out

13.00-14.30 — Lunch break

14.30-16.30 — Training session on legal and practical aspects related to digitisation (in Italian)
Run by Giulia Dore, Tatsiana Yankelevich and Marta Arisis (reCreating Europe), Maria Tartari (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Francesca Manfredini (European Fashion Heritage Association) and Nadia Nadesan (Platoniq)

Aimed at museum personnel/staff. Booking is required upon registration. Maximum 40 participants

16.30-18.00 — Museum guided visit

Booking required upon registration. Maximum 30 participants (2 groups)

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Day 2 – 27 May 2022
Mart – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Corso Bettini 43, 38068 – Rovereto (TN)

09.10-09.30 — Registration

09.30-09.40 — Welcome: Sara Di Giorgio (Ministero della Cultura – Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche)

09.40-10.00 — Keynote: Aldo Grassini, President of Museo Omero

10.00-11.20 — Panel 3 “Fostering accessibility for persons with disabilities in cultural organisations: legal tools, experiences and best practices”

Chaired by Delia Ferri (Maynooth University)

Léa Urzel (Maynooth University) – Realising the Right to Culture of Persons with Disabilities: the CRPD as Main Legal Tool
Ann Leahy (Maynooth University) – Barriers, Facilitators and Best Practices in Access to Culture: Views of Organisations of People with Disabilities in Europe
Delia Ferri (Maynooth University) – The Role of EU Law in Advancing Accessibility of Culture for Persons with Disabilities
Ginevra Niccolucci (PRISMA) – Accessibility: Methodologies and Technological Solutions. The Museo4U Case
Katia Franzoso and Romana Scandolari (MuSe) – Making museums accessible: best practices from MUSE
Carlo Tamanini and Ornella Dossi (Mart) – – Accessibility and Inclusion Experiences in Mart

11.20-11.50 — Coffee break

11.50-12.10 — Keynote: James Bradburne, Director of Pinacoteca Brera

12.10-13.30 — Panel 4 ”Inhabiting culture: digitisation, copyright and creativity in placemaking”

Chaired by Marta Iljadica (Glasgow University, CREATe)

Maria Della Lucia (University of Trento) – Giving places new life blending culture, creativity and tourism
Massimo Rospocher (Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Italian-German Historical Institute) – Giving places new life blending culture, creativity and tourism
Umberto Cecchinato (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) – Hidden Cities and Hidden Trento: Rediscovering the Renaissance City Using mobile app Technologies
Aleksandra Janus (Centrum Cyfrowe) – Value and impact of digital cultural heritage: communities, places, identities
István Harkai (Szeged University) – Preservation of Video Games as Cultural Heritage in the Light of CDSM Directive with Link to Placemaking
Francisco Duque Lima (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for IT&IP Law) – What happens in Vegas, stays online: livestreaming, digital urban exploration and copyright

13.30-15.00 — Lunch break

15.00-16.45 — Sensory experience “Tactile path” (in Italian)

Led by Ornella Dossi (Mart)

Booking required upon registration. Maximum 20 participants

16.45-18.15 — Museum guided visit (in Italian and English)

Booking required upon registration. Maximum 60 participants

Registration and attendance

Registration is open to all interested parties, including professionals, students and the general public.

Attendance is free of charge – registration is required. Maximum capacity of 100 participants for panels, different capacity for training sessions and museum guided visits (see programme above).

Should you have difficulties registering using the Eventbrite registration page please contact Rosie Allison at rosie.allison@libereurope.org. You can indicate during registration if you require any special assistance to attend the event, but you can also contact rosie.allison@libereuorpe.org to inform the organisers of any other accommodations necessary to enable your participation.

Contact persons for the scientific committee

Roberto Caso, Giulia Dore, Marta Arisi

The organising projects have received funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (grant agreements No. 870626, 870792, 864182)