Rethinking Copyright Flexibilities – Nicosia, 31 October-1 November

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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. 

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

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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

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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)

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

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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).

Webinar (16 November) The Regulatory Landscape for Copyright Content Moderation: Evaluation and Future Trajectories

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Date: 16 November 2021

Time: 10:00 to 11:30 CEST / Amsterdam Time 

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0scuGuqj4oH9V88UOJ8MHz6KkTSLNwixeT

This webinar will address the current status and future avenues for copyright content moderation in EU law, including a discussion on the rules on liability for online content-sharing service providers.

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

  • Recent developments at EU level surrounding copyright content moderation in the context of art. 17 of the copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive (2019/790) and recent Court of Justice case law;
  • The status quo of platform liability and the status of the national implementations of Art. 17 CDSM Directive in different Member States (Germany, Hungary, Italy, Sweden) and the potential impact of these on the liability of platforms and content moderation rules;
  • Potential avenues for regulation of copyright content moderation in the EU, the balancing of competing rights and interests, and their impact on access to culture.

Program

10:00 – 10:10: Welcome and background – The regulatory framework of copyright content moderation at EU Level
Speaker: JP Quintais

10:10 – 10:50: PANEL 1: Mapping the national implementation of Art. 17 CDSM Directive
Moderator: Peter Mezei

  • General remarks and framing – Peter Mezei
  • Germany – Helena Kowalewska Jahromi
  • Sweden – Kacper Szkalej
  • Italy – Giulia Priora

Q&A and Panel Discussion

10:50 – 11:25: PANEL 2: What’s to come in EU copyright content moderation?
Moderator: Sebastian Felix Schwemer

  • Measuring impact on access to culture and the future of regulation – Sebastian Felix Schwemer
  • Balancing interests through a system of “rough justice” – Thomas Riis
  • Discussant – Julia Reda

Q&A and Panel Discussion

11:25 – 11:30: Wrap-up & closing remarks
Speaker: Thomas Riis

Speakers

Helena Kowalewska Jahromi, Ass. jur., Academic Associate, Institute of International Law, Intellectual Property and Technology Law (IRGET) Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, TU Dresden (Germany)

Peter Mezei, Associate Professor, University of Szeged (Hungary); Adjunct professor (dosentti), University of Turku (Finland).

Giulia Priora, Postdoctoral Researcher, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy)

João Pedro Quintais, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law (IViR) (The Netherlands)

Julia Reda, Head of control © project at GFF, Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University), and former Member of the European Parliament

Thomas Riis, Professor, Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR) at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Sebastian Felix Schwemer, Associate Professor, Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR), University of Copenhagen (Denmark); and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Oslo’s Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL) (Norway).

Kacper Szkalej, PhD, Uppsala University, lecturer in copyright, e-commerce and fundamental rights law at Lund University, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University (Sweden)

Registration and target audience

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

  • academics / researchers;
  • national and EU policymakers in the area of copyright law and regulation of online platforms;
  • lawyers in the area of copyright law and regulation of online platforms;
  • online platforms engaged with copyright content moderation issues in the EU, and;
  • civil society organisations engaged with copyright content moderation issues in the EU.

To register click HERE: 

ReCreating Europe at EPIP 2021 

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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!

ReCreating Europe at the EPIP 2021 Conference in Madrid

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On 8-10 September 2021, ReCreating Europe will join the 16th Annual Conference of the EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) Association “IP and Future of Innovation”, hosted by the Centre of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid.

This independent, interdisciplinary, non-profit association of researchers from all over the world will gather to share and discuss high profile projects and ideas in the field of intellectual property, including copyright law.

This year ReCreating Europe will participate, bringing to the tables of the conference research outcomes and key developments across its Work Packages.

9th September 10:15 CEST – Roundtable: ‘Centrifugal forces in EU copyright law’

ReCreating Europe will host a round table on the “Centrifugal forces in EU copyright law”. The discussion will focus on the outcomes achieved by mapping and measuring the impact of the current multi-level legislative framework on:

(a) copyright flexibilities, users’ rights, access to culture and vulnerable groups;

(b) authors’ remuneration, income distribution and bargaining power, with a special focus on reversion rights; (c) copyright, data ownership, transparency and AI technologies; and

(d) intermediaries, content moderation, access to culture and freedom of (creative) expression.

ReCreating Europe researchers Ula Furgal, Thomas Margoni, Joost Poort, João Pedro Quintais, and Caterina Sganga will discuss preliminary results together with Brando Benifei (European Parliament), Bence Kertesz (DG CNCT) and Judge Marko Ilesic (TBC).

10th September 12:00 CEST – Paper presentations

Another ReCreating Europe panel will be dedicated to the presentation of the results of the work conducted within Work Package 2 on End-Users and Access to Culture. The panel will feature three paper presentations:

  • Giulia Priora and Caterina Sganga will share insights from their upcoming paper “Betwitxt and between: the present and future of copyright flexibilities”, tracing the contours of their encompassing research efforts mapping public legal sources of copyright flexibilities at EU as well as national level. The paper closely looks at the varying legal takes and understandings surrounding the notion of copyright flexibilities, and draws examples from selected copyright exceptions (non-commercial private uses, educational and research uses, and cultural heritage preservation) to build a comprehensive assessment of the consistency and effectiveness of current and future regulation.
  • Peter Mezei and Istvan Harkai will fundamentally complement the picture on copyright flexibilities presenting their paper on “End-user flexibilities in digital copyright law – An empirical analysis of end-user license agreements”. Exploring the private ordering facet of copyright regulation, their contribution thoroughly illustrates the way platforms’ end-users license agreements interact and shape copyright flexibilities, enabling or rather restricting their exercise and viability. The empirical analysis conducted embraces seventeen popular online service providers, and is available here.
  • Giulia Rossello and Arianna Martinelli will present their paper “Sci-Hub and Academics: Survey evidence from EU countries”. Leveraging on original data collected through an online survey in six European countries (Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands) the paper provides an overview on academics’ perception of copyright law and the diffusion of academic digital piracy.

To register to the conference and attend ReCreating Europe’s panels amongst a stellar line-up of other speakers and insightful presentations, visit the EPIP website: https://epip2021.org/registration/.

Reflections on CREATe’s Online Public Lecture: ‘An Empirical Perspective on Drafting Copyright Exceptions’

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Dr. Emily Hudson gave a public lecture (CREATe) on the 24th of March 2021 entitled ‘An Empirical Perspective on Drafting Copyright Exceptions.’

We are pleased to mention that this event was supported by ReCreating Europe: Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe. The event was hosted online and chaired by ReCreating Europe’s very own Dr Marta Iljadica together with discussant, Bartolomeo Meletti.

You can watch the lecture below and read more about the event in Aline Iramina’s report on the CREATe website.

Public and Regulatory Framework of Online Intermediaries: Workshop Report

Public and Regulatory Framework of Online Intermediaries: Workshop Report

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Following what can only be described as a long and tortuous process, the EU legislative bodies adopted the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive in June 2019. Article 17 (former Article 13) on the new liability regime of online content sharing service providers (OCSSPs) occupies the center stage of the discourse on CDSM. Read more

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