Julia Reda MEP will be on Highfield Campus on 7 January to talk about her work in the European Parliament, which is focussed on copyright reform (including Open Access), the digital single market, and geoblocking.
The talk is on 7 January, at 10:00 in B53, room 4025 with a discussion from 11:00 in the board room (4073) in B32. Please register on Eventbrite if you’d like to attend.
Research increasingly takes place in international teams, but the copyright framework remains national. Automatically analysing large bodies of literature or using copyrighted pictures in a lecture may be legal in one European country and illegal in another. This poses huge challenges for academics working in an international environment or using the Internet as a tool for teaching.
The EU Commission has announced an ambitious copyright reform to address these problem and break down national silos in copyright, but already these reform plans are facing huge obstacles from industry and some member state governments.
As the author of the European Parliament’s recommendations for reform of the copyright directive, Julia Reda MEP explains what researchers can expect from the EU copyright reform and why it’s important to get involved.
Afterwards Julia would love to have a discussion with interested academics about how to promote a copyright reform that is supportive for research, especially in regards to teaching, text and data mining, and libraries.