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Report: WIPS6 Conference in Szeged

June 21, 2022/in Activities, Galleries, Libraries, Museums & Archives, Past Events /by Rosie Allison

Author: István Harkai

Photos by Isabel Beirigo

May has been a busy month of conferences for participants of the reCreating Europe research consortium. We presented at the ‘Open Up Museums!’ workshop in Trento, at the ECS Annual Conference in Nottingham, and concluded this series in Szeged on 9-10 June at the sixth Workshop on Intellectual Property (WIPS6). Although the conference was mainly in-person, due to anomalies in European air traffic, several speakers were unable to arrive, so the conference became a hybrid event. This year, a significant part of the event was dedicated to the GLAM sector and cultural heritage issues, as well as to the intersection of consumer protection and copyright law. The event featured two GLAM@HOME panels and a GLAM@HOME Training session, which were streamed and recorded online to the public.

Take a look at the recording of these panel sessions here.

Organiser Péter Mezei welcomes participants and speakers to Szeged

Day 1 – GLAM@Home

Following the welcoming words of the main organizer and host of the event, Péter Mezei, the GLAM@HOME Panel started with an online presentation by keynote speaker, Maurizio Borghi (University of Torino), on rethinking the Commons in the era of data capitalism. Maurizio Borghi was followed by Camille Françoise (Creative Commons), who shared her thoughts on the future of open culture, with a copyright policy outlook.

Giulia Dore, Marta Arisi (University of Trento) and Pelin Turan (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) (all members of the H2020 ReCreating Europe WP5 GLAM research group) provided insights into a comparative EU analysis of the freedom of panorama and the reproduction of public domain art. The first panel ended with a presentation by Cristiana Sappa (IÉSEG School of Management) and Enrico Bondio (City University) on the challenges and opportunities for copyright stakeholders in the GLAM sector in the context of digitalisation.

The second GLAM@HOME Panel began with Svjetlana Ivanović (University of East Sarajevo), who addressed the issue of accessibility and digitisation of out-of-commerce works. She was followed by Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven), who analysed the intersection between non-commercial works and abandonware video games. Bohdan Widła (Jagiellonian University) closed the panel with a presentation on the question of scientific editions and first editions in the digital single market.

After the lunch break, a workshop-style session followed, namely the GLAM@HOME Training, where Péter Mezei and Ioanna Lapatoura (University of Nottingham) gave a training on NFTs and cultural heritage preservation, followed by the copyright practice of Francisco Duque Lima and Marta Arisi, who introduced the audience to the application of participatory problem-solving tools in the cultural heritage sector.

Franciso Duque Lima and Marta Arisi discuss the GLAM Training session

The first day ended with the ‘Junior Track’. Roya Pary Bouery (University Lyon 3 Jean Moulin) presented her research results on the restitution of artefacts looted during World War II and the role of the GLAM sector. Wojciech Biernacki (Adam Mickievicz University) talked about the relevance of the distinction of data, information, and knowledge in the light of exchange of non-personal data. The last speaker of the day was Flóra Anna Gubicz (Hungarian Intellectual Property Office), who shared her thoughts about whether the out-of-commerce regime will be a”game-changer” in the process of mass digitalisation.

Day 2 – Overlaps between Consumer Protection and IP Law

The second day of the conference was dedicated to overlaps between consumer protection and intellectual property. Kacper Szkalej (Lund University) theorised about the exhaustion of the making available right regarding the consumptive use of legal digital content. Simon Geiregat (Ghent University) shared his thoughts about the needs and wills of digital content consumers. The last segment was dedicated to the topics of IP and technology. Ioannis Revolidis (University of Malta), Radim Charvát (Masaryk University) and Antoni Rubí Puig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) dedicated their presentations to the questions and problems raised by Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) from different perspectives. The session was closed by Anikó Grad-Gyenge (BME Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences), who talked about the impact of the development of EU law on the exclusive nature of copyright law.

A participant questions the speakers during a panel session

WIPS6 was a fantastic opportunity to host the series face-to-face in Szeged, for the first time in three years. Despite the challenges, the workshop successfully brought together junior and senior academics to discuss, debate and explore current issues in intellectual property law.

 

 

We look forward to welcoming you next year for WIPS7!

 

 

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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

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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)

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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)

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Call For Papers – Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Szeged (WIPS)

January 26, 2022/in Activities /by Rosie Allison

The reCreating Europe and inDICEs projects are co-organising the 6th annual Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Szeged (WIPS), hosted by The Institute of Comparative Law and Legal Theory (University of Szeged, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences) 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. This year’s event opens two main tracks for application:

  • GLAM @ Home e.g.
    • current perspectives of the European GLAM sector;
    • digitization, cultural preservation, orphan works, out-of-commerce works, digital/online research and education.
  • Consumer protection and IP laws overlaps e.g.
    • overlaps of consumer protection law and intellectual property law;
    • overlaps of intellectual property and platform economy, digital services, digital markets, blockchains, supply and conformity of digital contents and services, and consumer protection.

Read more details here

To submit a paper for presentation for WIPS, please send an abstract of approximately 300 words to Péter Mezei (mezei.peter@szte.hu).

Deadline: March 15, 2022.

Please note that abstracts will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Training Toolkit Archive

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Training Toolkit Detail

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Event report – Accessing Digital Culture: Barriers for Vulnerable Groups

December 14, 2021/0 Comments/in Activities /by Rosie Allison

Screen reader compatible poster

Screen reader compatible programme

On Friday 10th December 2021 (10AM – 12PM GMT), to coincide with International Human Rights Day, the Maynooth University (MU) reCreating Europe research team organised a webinar entitled ‘Accessing Digital Culture: Barriers for Vulnerable Groups.’ This virtual seminar was hosted by the MU Assisted Living and Learning (ALL) Institute. Two Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpreters provided simultaneous sign language translation, to make the event as accessible as possible. Attendees included legal professionals and academics, members of civil society organisations, and persons from representative organisations of vulnerable groups who were subjects of the research, including key informants who were interviewed as part of the research.

Webinar summary

The event aimed to present the research conducted within reCreating Europe by the Maynooth unit. It began with some introductory remarks from Maynooth’s research leads, Noelle Higgins and Delia Ferri, both in the Irish and English language.

Session 1 of the webinar entailed a general introduction on the reCreating Europe project and access to digital culture by guest speaker and project coordinator, Caterina Sganga (SSSA). Caterina explained how opportunities in terms of access and affordability of cultural products brought about by digitisation are counteracted by the technical and legal obstacles to access created by copyright, which are exacerbated by poor EU harmonisation of copyright exceptions and flexibilities. Fellow guest speaker, Arianna Martinelli (SSSA), outlined the core tenets of Work Package 2 (WP2), which focuses the ongoing work to address the economic, legal and social barriers to access to digital culture for end users, including those defined as vulnerable.

Session 2 focused on the specific research of the MU unit, namely the barriers faced by vulnerable groups in accessing digital culture. Katie Donnellan opened the session with an overview of the objectives, methodology and general preliminary findings of a set of semi-structured interviews from across 12 European countries. Key stakeholders and representatives of organisations representing both old and new Minority Groups and Persons with Disabilities were interviewed by post-doc-researcher Laura Serra about the barriers they encounter in accessing digital culture. Three emerging themes were outlined:

  • the existence of a limited degree of knowledge of copyright law and its relevance in the consumption of digital cultural content amongst vulnerable groups;
  • the existence of underlying societal barriers, such as the digital divide and structural inequalities faced by vulnerable groups, which represent a substantial challenge to and prevent the consumption of digital cultural content, and;
  • the existence of patterns of convergence and divergence between the different vulnerable groups, such as the underrepresentation of vulnerable groups in cultural content.

Noelle Higgins followed with a presentation of the issue of minorities and access to digital culture. Noelle outlined the research team’s broad conceptualisation of minority, which encompasses all non-dominant groups in a nation-state, that meet one or more specific criteria:

  • numerically smaller than rest of population;
  • occupy a non-dominant position in the State;
  • are culturally, linguistically, religiously or racially distinct from the majority population, and;
  • there exists a will amongst the minority group to preserve these distinctive characteristics.

Noelle outlined the five primary barriers to accessing digital culture for minority groups identified from the research to date: the Digital Divide, language barriers, financial barriers, lack of or negative representation and privacy issues.

Delia Ferri closed Session 2 with a discussion of persons with disabilities and access to digital culture. Delia presented findings from the data collected from interviews with key informants. She highlighted that organisations of Persons with Disabilities showed a general awareness of how copyright law can hinder access to digital cultural content. Particular attention was paid to the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled and of EU Accessibility legislation, both of which were mentioned by interviewees as essential legal instruments, to surmount the barriers to access.

Delia outlined that, while barriers still exist to accessing digital culture for persons with disabilities, the situation is improving and there is a growing interest amongst cultural institutions and market players to make cultural goods and content accessible. Non-inclusive or negative/stereotypical representation of persons with disabilities in digital cultural content is however still an issue. All in all, whilst positive developments are underway in terms of improving access to digital cultural content for Persons with Disabilities, there remains a long road ahead.

What’s next?

This webinar marked the first of a number of dissemination events and outputs that the MU Research Team intends to host and publish in the New Year, to reflect the ongoing data analysis that they will conduct under the auspices of both Tasks 2.2 on barriers to access experienced by vulnerable groups and 2.5 on the specific case study of persons with visual impairments. This will complement the already completed dissemination outputs, such as an ALL Institute blog post, as well as those which are currently under review for publication, such as academic articles based on the research for the Cultural Trends Journal and the European Intellectual Property Review and an upcoming book chapter on ‘The Right to Culture for Asylum Seekers in Ireland: Lessons to Be Learned for the International Legal System’ in Migration and Culture: Implementation of Cultural Rights of Migrants, edited by G.C.Bruno F.M. Palombino, A. Di Stefano, G.M. Ruotolo.

The event highlighted the positive developments made thus far in terms of accessibility of digital cultural content for vulnerable groups and solidified the need for projects such as reCreating Europe to ramp up the work towards the creation of a truly modern, accessible, inclusive and diverse digital cultural landscape in Europe and beyond.

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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).

Register HERE

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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,

 

Register here

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