At the event, Silvia Bottaro, from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, presented the European perspective on “Copyright and access and re-use of scientific publications and data“, followed by a presentation by researchers on the text and data mining regime in their countries. Prof. Dr. Ivana Kunda, from the Faculty of Law, University […]

We tend to associate the civil law systems that dominate in Europe with narrowly defined exceptions, only allowing users to undertake a specific, predefined task. But in fact, traditionally, civil law systems have been characterised as codifying broad and flexible principles into law, giving courts much leeway in their interpretation. It is only over the […]