Platforms’ content moderation & accountability – Evaluating the present and looking into the future

November 25, 2022/in News, Activities, Intermediaries, WP6 /by Rosie Allison

Date: 8/12/2022

Time: 10:00-12:30 CET

Platforms’ content moderation has been subject to substantive regulatory interventions over recent times; first and foremost with the CDSM Directive and the Digital Services Act (DSA). Time to take a step back and look at accountability – how is the present situation and how should the future look?

Among other topics, we will discuss:

Overlaps and missing pieces: Post-DSM Directive and DSA, where do we go from here, what is missing?
Transparency: in light of mandatory data access regimes for researchers, how can these be operationalised for the study of content moderation?

Panellists/participants will be announced on an on-going basis.

Registration

To sign-up for the workshop, register here.

Organisation

This workshop is part of the reCreating Europe work package 6 on intermediaries, where we study the content moderation of online platforms. At this workshop, we will explore content moderation and removal rules at EU and national level and the interplay with the legal framework conditions as well as removal practices’ and technologies’ impact on access and diversity.

The workshop is jointly organised by the University of Bremen’s Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab (Christian Katzenbach) and the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Information and Innovation Law (Sebastian Schwemer).

Rethinking Copyright Flexibilities – Nicosia, 31 October-1 November

October 17, 2022/in News, Activities, Workshops & Conferences /by Rosie Allison

Date: 31st October-1st November, 2022

Venue: University of Cyprus,
Anastasios Leventis Building, Room B 108 and online

Registration: Register for online participation here.

The relationship of copyright law with to public interest is often seen as unbalanced, biased, or dysfunctional. The evolution and structure of EU copyright law is characterized by an approach which emphasizes rigid protection of the private interests of right holders whilst lacking a systematic reflection on copyright flexibilities. However, flexibility is not foreign to copyright law principles; on the contrary, it is an organic component of copyright discourse and practice over the three centuries of its existence.

Copyright law addresses issues related to access to culture, participation in cultural life, dissemination of information, creativity, and freedom of art and science. Copyright law is designed as a principle-based legal framework that should ensure and provide the flexibility needed in these fields. The overall delicate equilibrium between right holders’ prerogatives and users’ interests and freedoms and the inherent limitations of copyright law are core elements of this flexibility. Additionally, the enhanced role of copyright law as a regulatory framework in the digital sphere increases the need for both flexibility and clarity regarding access and use of copyright-protected works. In parallel, the never-ending EU harmonization pushes for detailed rules and compromises that affect this flexibility.

In this context, and on the occasion of the launch of the Copyright Flexibilities database developed by the reCreating Europe project, the ‘Rethinking Copyright Flexibilities’ conference aims to provide some critical thinking concerning the present and future of copyright flexibilities in European copyright law and their evolutionary paths. The conference critically discusses the state of the art and evolution of copyright flexibilities in Europe, exploring their types, forms, limits, dynamics and perspectives, also in light of the most recent interventions of the EU legislators and landmark decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU, and debate opportunities and need for legislative reform.

Explore the full programme here.

Register here to join online here.

Drafting reCreating Europe’s Policy Recommendations and Best Practices – What, why and how?

October 11, 2022/in News, End users, Past Events /by Rosie Allison

Within the context of WP2, dedicated to end-users, reCreating Europe’s latest output – the (draft) Code of Best Practices and Policy Recommendations – is devised to achieve two main objectives; to facilitate understanding of copyright flexibilities through the code of best practices, and to propose reforms directed to national and EU policy makers through the policy recommendations. This blog details how these recommendations were developed, and how they will help achieve our project aim of facilitating access to digital culture through copyright law.

Best practices – What, why and how?

The code of best practices stems from the effort to make the WP2 mapping of EU copyright exceptions digestible for end-users and non-copyright aficionados. In this sense, best practices are primarily directed to laymen, as their ultimate scope is to bridge the knowledge gap between users and copyright experts. Thanks to the code of best practices, users can become aware about the different degree of copyright flexibility ensured by national copyright laws. In this way, users will be acknowledged of the dos and don’ts in Member States, so that they will be able to benefit from the degree of flexibility ensured by national copyright laws to the maximum extent.

To draft the code of best practices, the results of reCreating Europe’s comparative analysis of EU copyright law have been transformed into takeaways, to empower users in the digital arena and thus foster access to culture.

The best practices were tested at the workshop conference organized by the Institute of Information Law, University of Amsterdam, that took place on the 21^st of September 2022. At the workshop, stakeholders and copyright experts gave their feedback and suggested to convert the best practices into a guidance, to increase the degree of user-friendliness and guarantee an easier dissemination through social networks and similar channels.

Policy recommendations – What, why and how?

ReCreating Europe’s policy recommendations stem from the effort to convert the WP2 comparative analysis into suggestions for national legislators and policymakers. For this reason, they are conceived as guideposts for the next copyright reforms taking place at the national level, to achieve a fairer copyright balance and reduce the harmonization gap amongst Member States.

These recommendations were conceptualized within the context of a workshop grouping interested EU policymakers, organized in Brussels the on the 20^th of September 2022. Thanks to these policy guidelines, the state-of-the-art of EU copyright law can give a concrete impulse to the next legislative reforms. In fact, national legislators may start from the “lessons learned” of our mapping to devise copyright flexibilities that will be more effective from a systematic standpoint. In this way, reCreating EU will also actively contribute to the EU-driven policy objective of achieving better harmonization of national statutory law within the field.

The first draft of our policy recommendations was presented to the conference in Brussels and will be improved and further enriched with the feedback and suggestions that emerged during the workshop. The exchange of inputs among the national policymakers involved will be intensified in the following months. Thus, this draft will be substantially revised in structure and the legislative approach to be promoted will be refined as well, to present the final version of the policy recommendations at reCreating Europe’s final conference (scheduled for the end of January 2023).

Author: Camilla Signoretta – SSSA

Read the draft version of the Code of Best Practices and Policy Recommendations on our Zenodo channel here.

WORKSHOP: Copyright flexibilities: mapping, explaining, empowering

August 4, 2022/in Activities, News, Stakeholders /by Rosie Allison

reCreating Europe and COMMUNIA invite you to the expert workshop – “Copyright Flexibilities: mapping, explaining, empowering”, which will be held in a hybrid format at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) – University of Amsterdam and online (Zoom) on 21 September 2022, from 9 to 5 pm CEST.

The workshop will bring together the core research teams which have developed three websites/databases devoted to users’ rights and copyright flexibilities (www.copyrightexceptions.eu, www.copyrightflexibilities.eu and www.copyrightuser.eu), national copyright experts who contributed to the mapping, and stakeholders representing various groups of beneficiaries.

Workshop aims

The aims of the workshop are (i) to launch the three platforms, gather feedback on their functionalities and plan their future; (II) to discuss the state of copyright flexibilities and necessary policy actions at the EU and national level, with three expert panels on (a) teaching and research; (b) freedom of expression and (c)cultural uses and preservation; (iii) to present and test reCreating Europe’s best practices on copyright flexibilities with interested stakeholders.

Programme

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction and greetings (Paul Keller, Caterina Sganga)
9:15 – 10:15 Three platforms to explain, engage, empower

copyrightexceptions.eu (Paul Keller, Communia/IViR)
copyrightflexibilities.eu (Caterina Sganga, reCreating/Sant’Anna Pisa)
copyrightuser.eu (Bartolomeo Meletti, reCreating/CREATe Glasgow)

10:15 – 11:15 Flexibilities for teaching and research
Chair: Teresa Nobre (Communia)
Speakers: Ana Lazarova (Communia/Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski); Justin Jutte (University College Dublin); Matej Myska (Masaryk University Brno)

11.15 – 11.30 – Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Flexibilities for cultural uses and preservations
Chair: Caterina Sganga (reCreating/Sant’Anna Pisa)
Speakers: Francisco Duque Lima (KU Leuven); Rita Matulionyte (Macquarie University Sidney); Leo Pascault (Science Po Paris)

12:30 – 13:45 Flexibilities for freedom of expression (quotation, parody, informatory purposes)
Chair: Paul Keller (Communia/IViR)
Speakers: Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou (University of Cyprus); Philipp Homar (Donau-Universität Krems); Julien Cabay (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and University of Liege); Conception Saiz Garcia (University of Valencia)

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break

14:30 – 15:30 Roundtable on best practices on Copyright flexibilities

Presentation of best practices and moderation (Caterina Sganga)
Open debate

15:30 – 16:30 Roundtable on the way ahead: data collection, editorial boards, platforms maintenance
Moderator: Paul Keller

16:30 Wrap up, closing and drinks

Registration

Please save the date and confirm your interest and availability to join us in person or online by registering at your earliest convenience here.

For any questions, please contact rosie.allison@libereuriope.org

Participants and speakers enjoy lunch together at the MuSe Museum cafe, surrounded by the mountains of Trento, Italy.

Report: Open Up Museums! Workshop, Trento/Rovereto

June 15, 2022/in Past Events, Galleries, Libraries, Museums & Archives, News /by Rosie Allison

This May (26-27 May, 2022) saw a return to travelling for the reCreating Europe project, as project partners headed to Italy for the first of two GLAM @ Home workshops – ‘Open Up Museums! Prospects and Challenges of Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion’, organised as a collaboration between projects DANCING, inDICEs. A valley enclosed on all sides by looming mountains is not the most obvious setting for a workshop which focuses on ‘openness’ – but the surroundings gave a dramatic backdrop to the two-day workshop. Amongst the full programme, participants enjoyed the superb hospitality of the two host museums – MuSe (Trento) and Mart (Rovereto).

The below report summarises the workshop content, and is interspersed with the thoughts of speakers and attendees who were asked to reflect on the question – ‘What does an ’open museum’ mean to you’?

Day 1 – MuSe (Trento)

Panel 1: Museums, intellectual property, and access to culture (Author: Giulia Dore)

‘An open museum is a museum that can listen to every kind of people, that can communicate with every kind of public, understand the requirements of different people and constantly tries to create, innovate and develop in terms of accessibility. An open museum can be considered as a house for everyone.’ – Patrizia Famà

The two-day-long program started with the Museums, intellectual property, and access to culture panel, which was opened by Patrizia Famà, who highlighted the importance of the cultural preservation institutions. Chaired by Giulia Dore (University of Trento), the opening panel explored the concepts of openness and access to culture in relation to the digital mission of museums. After an opening welcome from Roberto Caso (University of Trento), speakers highlighted the features of an extremely complex regulatory framework focusing on copyright, cultural heritage law and data management, discussing the challenges and opportunities of specific policies aimed at making museums open to all.

Kristina Petrasova (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) brought her experience as a researcher and cultural heritage practitioner to explore the choice of implementing open policies in the cultural sector.

Marta Arisi (University of Trento) illustrated one of the most controversial tasks of cultural heritage establishments, that is access and re-use of cultural data across copyright and data protection laws.

Barbara Pasa (University of Venice Iuav) deepened the discussion around the concept of artistic reuse of works exemplifying the carousel rides of CHIs that collide with their attempts to perform their mission to the fullest.

Fiona Macmillan (Birkbeck College, University of London) called for an inclusive community approach to cultural heritage, to be understood as the result of a social process where people enjoy, participate and share, hence giving true substance to the concept of open culture.

‘An open museum is a museum without restrictions, especially in terms of copyright law, which is imposed on museums that try to fulfill their public mission. As long as museums can do what the society makes them do, like preserve and share their resources.’ – Konrad Gliściński

Konrad Gliściński (Jagiellonian University/Centrum Cyfrowe) argued that copyright needs to adjust itself not to frustrate but rather to facilitate the many and increasingly more ambitious missions of CHIs.

A lively discussion around the question ‘How can CHIs concretely play an active and participatory role in the process of redesigning copyright?’ closed the panel with a message of hope: that they should all be aware, trained and fearless of tackling this issue together.

Panel 2: Barriers to access to digital culture for vulnerable groups, inclusivity and the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty (Author: Lorenzo Beltrame)

‘An open museum is means to bring culture to everyone, everywhere, in every condition. This is why we commit spreading out our culture and the Egyptian culture as a means of communication with everyone around the world. This is why we involve minority communities and people who live in difficult situations, like prisons and hospitals, to virtually visit our museum. We bring the museum to the people with online collections and activities.’ – Alessia Fassone

This panel addressed issues of accessibility to cultural resources for vulnerable groups. Obstacles to full access experienced by people with visual impairments, blind people, minorities, marginalized groups and people with disabilities were discussed by the panelists.

Katie Donnellan, Delia Ferri and Noelle Higgins, from Maynooth University, presented their empirical research on the barriers to access to digital culture for minority groups and people with disabilities. Their research showed how, notwithstanding an improved sensibility in making cultural resources more accessible to vulnerable groups, issues of underrepresentation, cultural appropriation and stereotypes are still present. Their research also illustrated how there is a limited understanding of copyright law as a barrier and patchy knowledge about the Marrakesh Treaty and about how it can improve accessibility through copyright exception.

Giulia Rossello, from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, presented her empirical research on the perceived benefits of the Marrakesh Treaty experienced by people with visual impairment in six European countries. Her research has brought evidence of how perceived benefits are linked to the type of visual impairment and the technology used.

‘An open museum is a place where I feel welcome, triggered and inspired to discover people’s stories and to somehow see my own history reflected. It’s a place where not only I am welcome, but also all people I can think of, to feel no hindrance to walk together with me, and where I don’t feel the pressure to leave. An open museum is ideally a 24/7 store where all people can come and ‘shop’ for a cultural experience that serves their passion for culture.’ – Sofie Taes

Sofie Taes, from Catholic University of Leuven, discussed the topic of misrepresentation and cultural bias embedded in the metadata of archived photographs from the point of view of archival curators.

Finally, Alessia Fassone and Federica Facchetti, from Museo Egizio in Turin, presented some examples of active inclusion of marginalized groups (like immigrants and prisoners) in the cultural activities of their museum.

Training session on legal and practical aspects related to digitization (Author: Marta Arisi)

‘An open museum for me is a museum where I can go anytime with my friend with disabilities or with a baby carriage, or with my luggage if I travel, and I don’t feel any problems with that.’ – Irina Tekhucheva

The training session was a thrilling moment of the GLAM@Home Workshop! Here, participants of different backgrounds and ages worked together to put the ideas and concepts of the morning session into practice. This took place in the impressive learning space at Muse, Trento.

In the first part, Maria Tartari and Francesca Manfredini from inDICEs explored the project and introduced its exciting participative tool – the Open Observatory. We learned how CHIs can build a participative digitisation strategy, exploring different venues and tips that truly enable Culture 3.0.

Later, Giulia Dore and Marta Arisi, as part of the reCreating Europe WP5 team from University of Trento, focusing on GLAM, acted as facilitators while groups worked to solve a case scenario. The case is available through the reCreating Europe stakeholders platform. We discussed copyright issues arising from a museum’s project for a collective digitisation campaign and art project, using public domain works and photographs thereof. Please feel free to contribute – follow-up on this controversial and fascinating debate is always welcome!

Day 2- Mart (Rovereto)

For the second day of the conference, the whole team travelled to the town of Rovereto. Keeping accessibility to culture in mind, the organisers created braille programmes, invited sign language interpreters, and live Italian-English translation was offered.

The programme was opened by Sara Di Giorgio (Ministero della Cultura) and Aldo Grassini (President of Museo Omero) who gave the first keynote speech of the day, discussing the importance of broadening the definition of cultural interaction to allow blind people access to cultural heritage.

Panel 3: Fostering Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities in Cultural Organisations: Legal Tools, Experiences and Best Practices (Author: Delia Ferri)

‘An open museum is accessible to all members of society, and especially vulnerable and marginalised groups, like persons with disabilities and persons belonging to minorities.’ – Katie Donnellan

The third panel of the workshop focused on fostering accessibility for persons with disabilities in cultural organisations. Chaired by Professor Delia Ferri (Maynooth University), Principal Investigator of the DANCING project, funded by the European research Council (grant agreement No. 864182), the panel included six speakers.

The first three presentations discussed legal tools that support access to culture, as well as barriers and facilitators to cultural participation for persons with disabilities. In particular, Léa Urzel (DANCING, Maynooth University) discussed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a main legal tool to fostering accessibility for persons with disabilities. Professor Ferri discussed the role of EU law in enhancing access to cultural goods and services, with particular attention on the Web Accessibility Directive and the European Accessibility Act. Dr. Ann Leahy (DANCING, Maynooth University) presented empirical findings of the DANCING research project focusing on factors that prevent or facilitate access to culture.

‘An open museum is a museum that is accessible to everyone, including persons with disabilities. A museum has to be open to everyone, so it needs to consider the diversity of the people, with their abilities and disabilities, so people can enjoy the museum on an equal basis with others.’ – Delia Ferri

Those speeches were followed by a set of presentations on best practices. Ginevra Niccolucci of PRISMA, expert in cultural heritage communication, showcased her work within Museo4U. Katia Franzoso of MuSe and Ornella Dossi of Mart shared their respective experiences and practices of making their exhibitions and venues accessible to all. The panel was bilingual, and simultaneous English – Italian translation was offered. This was complemented by Italian Sign Language interpretation to support accessibility.

Panel 4: Inhabiting culture: digitisation, copyright and creativity in placemaking (Authors: István Harkai and Marta Iljadica)

‘An open museum is a place that has to trust the younger generation.’ – Barbara Pasa

After the second and final keynote speech of the conference delivered by James Bradbourne (Director of Pinacoteca Brera), another exciting panel led by Marta Iljadica (CREATe, Glasgow University) considered placemaking, especially how places are created and experienced with particular reference to cultural heritage, digitisation, and copyright through multiple disciplinary perspectives.

Aleksandra Janus (Centrum Cyfrowe) kicked off the presentations by highlighting the value of digital cultural heritage and its importance to communities, identities, and places. Maria Della Lucia (University of Trento) then presented work exploring how places are made and re-made through culture, creativity, and tourism. Umberto Cecchinato (Università Roma Tre), presenting work undertaken with Massimo Rospocher (Istituto Storico Italo Germanico – Fondazione Bruno Kessler), spoke about the use of mobile application technologies to discover the hidden histories of cities as part of the Hidden Cities project and introduced the Hidden Trento app.

Finally, István Harkai (University of Szeged) and Francisco Duque Lima (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for IT & IP Law) then shifted focus to video games by exploring the challenges of preserving virtual worlds, the challenges of live streaming video games and how this links to placemaking.

‘There are two types of openness. It’s partly a physical question, a museum has to be accessible to everyone in the community. And it’s partly a metaphysical question, that is the question of the ability to interact with the things that are on the display. If cultural heritage is about social process, and museums are about cultural heritage, then by definition a museum must be open, it must be a place that you can not only access, but also can use it to engage with other people.’ – Fiona Macmillan

The workshop was a superb opportunity for members of all three projects – reCreating Europe, inDICEs and DANCING – to reconnect, create new synergies and share inspiration. Furthermore, by setting the workshop in two museums that are striving to become ‘open museums’ in all sense of the phrase, the theoretical content was grounded in reality, and the practicalities of making cultural heritage accessible were ever present. The reCreating Europe project looks forward to continuing the collaborations formed during the organisation of this workshop, as it continues to work towards redefining copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible and creative Europe.

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)

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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Screen reader compatible programme

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).

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).

ReCreating Europe at EPIP 2021

September 21, 2021/0 Comments/in Past Events, Activities, News, Workshops & Conferences, WP3 Authors and performers /by Rosie Allison

On 9 and 10 September 2021, several ReCreating Europe members participated in the 16th Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association, dedicated to “IP and Future of Innovation” and hosted by the Centre of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid.

The occasion was special, to say the least: for most of us, this was the first face-to-face conference since the outbreak of the pandemic. The prestigious venue of EPIP, which gathers more than 200 academics from across Europe every year, from different disciplines and backgrounds, made it incredibly meaningful for ReCreating Europe’s researchers to share the preliminary results of their work.

On September 9, the ReCreating Europe roundtable entitled ‘Centrifugal forces in EU copyright law’ took place. It was chaired by Martin Kretschmer, and participants included our project coordinator Caterina Sganga, WP3 members Ula Furgal and Thomas Margoni, WP3 leader Joost Poort, and WP6 leader João Pedro Quintais. Two illustrious respondents joined the roundtable, commenting on the research insights presented by the panelists: Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament, and Bence Kertész, from EU Commission DG CONNECT. See the full presentations on Zenodo.

The roundtable successfully managed to provide an overview of the main interim results of the project, highlighting gaps and dangers of today’s and tomorrow’s EU digital copyright scenario. ReCreating Europe’s researchers presented the innovative qualitative and quantitative research carried out in the past 20 months and the outcomes achieved by mapping and measuring the impact of the current multi-level legislative framework, with particular focus on copyright flexibilities, authors’ remuneration and bargaining power, copyright data ownership, transparency and AI technologies, and intermediaries and content moderation.

On September 10, another ReCreating Europe panel took place. This time the session was dedicated to the presentation of the results of the work conducted within WP2 on End-Users and Access to Culture. The panel featured three paper presentations: First, Giulia Rossello and Arianna Martinelli presented their ongoing empirical work under the title “Sci-Hub and Academics: Survey evidence from EU countries”, illustrating the survey they circulated across six European countries on academics’ perception of copyright law and the diffusion of academic digital piracy; Then, Giulia Priora and Caterina Sganga presented their upcoming paper “Betwitxt EU and national: the present and future of copyright flexibilities”, based on their legal mapping across all 27 Member States and related thorough comparative analysis of the legal understandings underlying EU copyright flexibilities; And finally, Peter Mezei and Istvan Harkai presented their published contribution entitled “End-user flexibilities in digital copyright law – An empirical analysis of end-user license agreements”, in which they explore the private ordering facet of copyright regulation and the way platforms’ end-users license agreements interact end-users’ freedoms and experiences. To see all the presentations from this session, they are available on Zenodo.

The EPIP conference turned out to be an incredibly fruitful moment of exchange and discussion of ReCreating Europe’s numerous preliminary results, and an important moment of assessment of the work done so far and our future plans. The cross-disciplinary research efforts and enthusiastic activities carried out since January 2020 from ReCreating Europe’s researchers met the genuine interest of academics, policymakers, and stakeholders in the audience – making the three-day-long conference not only an important moment of discussion but also an input for ReCreating Europe’s team for further work and collaborations within the scope of the project’s activities and objectives.

Stay tuned as further events will soon follow!