The new report of the Knowledge Rights 21 project partner SPARC Europe is now available.

Today, March 17, 2023, a symposium on law in the information society is taking place in the golden lecture hall of the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will present copyright aspects of artificial intelligence at the symposium.

ChatGPT poses difficult questions in the field of authorship as well as in the field of ethics in science (and also in other fields where independent work is required).

The Slovenian Copyright and Related Rights Act was amended in September. The adoption process was intensely problematic and resulted in numerous solutions at the expense of researchers and educators, while also being contrary to the national open science strategy. The issue was considered in detail by Maja Bogataj Jančič and Sandra Koren in an open access article in Sobotna priloga, Delo.

The positive changes in the amendment are due to the persistence of researchers that were supported by the Minister of digital transformation, dr. Emilija Stojmenova Duh. This resulted in the adoption of a progressive TDM exception.

The French government has a new plan for Europe that could help the EU compete with the US tech giants: the digital commons.

Registering a trademark is often the first step when entering the market, undertaken by small and big enterprises, as well as “average joes” and superstars. Whether the trademark registration will succeed, however, is not dependent only on the characteristics of the sign or a word to be registered, but sometimes also on the applicant’s special characteristics, such as e.g. extreme fame or their anonymity.

Solving copyright related issues is oftentimes challenging already when dealing with the so-called traditional works, such as paintings, written works or musical works. Hence, determining copyright can be even harder in the case of unconventional works, where the work is placed on somebody else’s buidling (e.g. grafitti) or even somebody else’s skin, as is the case with tattoos.

“The main event hosted different lecturers who presented different building blocks of the open knowledge. During the day, there were many other events; the Slovenian chapter of Creative Commons was established and the exhibition Create a work that’s not yours took place in the evening.”

If you have so far failed to understand, why the new DSM Directive is so controversial, an interview with prof. Martin Kretschmer from the University of Glasgow is a Friday must-read before the week in which the European Parliament will vote on the Directive.

Report on the roundtable “Europe needs a good copyright reform”

The Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor published a conference paper with the lectures of the IXth conference “Law and Economics: Copyrighted works at the university: – legal, economic and other aspects”.

Saša Krajnc, in cooperation with the Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning published a manual entitled “Copyright in architecture”.

GV založba published a new book entitled Law in the Information Society, whose co-authors are, amongst others, also dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič and Jernej Pusser.

The review LeXonomica published the article entitled “Contractual regulation of copyrights on works of architecture” by Saša Krajnc.

On 28 October 2011, the European Commission adopted a recommendation asking EU Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve the private sector in digitizing cultural material.

In July, the European Commission has published a Green Paper on the initiative of Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier.

The article “Copyright as an instrument of protection of architectural works” by Saša Krajnc was published in the review AR : Architecture, Research.