Talk & Discussion on Open Access, with MEP Julia Reda. Enabling cross-border and data-driven research through copyright reform.
Date and time
Location
Soton Campus
B53 Room 4025 Discussion in B32, Room 4073Description
Hello all,
On Jan 7th, we have Julia Reda* MEP around to give a talk about her work in the European Parliament, which is focussed on copyright reform (including Open Access), the digital single market, and geoblocking.
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.
After the talk Julia wold love to have a discussion with interested academics about how to promote a copyright reform that is supportive for research, especially in regards to exceptions for teaching, text and data mining, and libraries. She's really keen to hear your views, so please do come by!
The talk is scheduled for 10 am in B53, room 4025, and the discussion from 11 AM in the board room (4073) in B32. Please sign up if you'd like to come to either talk or discussion or both, and feel free to pass this on to whoever might be interested around the university!
Many thanks!