Invitation to the Open Knowledge Day 2023 and Workshop
We would like to invite you to the fourth Open Knowledge Day, which will take place this year in the framework of and with the support of Knowledge Rights 21. The event will bring together experts from different European countries to address two topics: legal basis for data analytics, and open science in theory and practice. Join us and learn about the latest developments in the field of open knowledge.
The event will take place on 17 October 2023 from 9.30 to 14.40 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Maistrova 3, 1000 Ljubljana (+MSUM). The workshop will take place on 18 October 2023.
Please pre-register for the event and the workshop online at the following link: registration. Participants attending the event will also be able to register at the event itself at +MSUM on 17.10.2023 from 9.00 to 9.30.
A detailed programme of the event is available here.
The District Court of Hamburg ruled in the case of Kneschke v. LAION e.V. that LAION did not infringe the copyright of photographer Kneschke, as the use of his photograph was covered by the exception for text and data mining (TDM) for scientific purposes.
“Can copyright bring artificial intelligence to its knees? Which other circumstances may cause that the “making” of generative AI can dramatically change in the (near) future. This short paper presents potential challenges that copyright poses to the training of the machines on large amount of data. Different jurisdictions address these issues differently. In the USA the legality of these activities is tested in several court cases. Do gentlemen’s agreements and pragmatic symbiosis known from the “search engines business model” provide sufficient basis and/or incentive for the business model of “making” generative AI business model as well?
On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.
Today, September 26, 2024, a specialist training for persons who will perform the role of data stewards or related profiles of data experts was organized by the Central Technical Library (CTK) at the University of Ljubljana as part of the SPOZNAJ project, at which Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič also lectured on the subject of open science and copyright.