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.
In February 2026, a first instance court in Munich ruled that three logos created with the help of commercial generative artificial intelligence do not enjoy copyright protection under German law. The decision contributes to the emerging European case law on AI-generated content and clarifies how courts interpret the requirement of individual intellectual creation.
On 19 February 2026, the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) programme launched the action plan “Safeguard Access, Empower Europe – An Action Plan to Let Libraries be Libraries”, which is aimed at policy makers, legal professionals and libraries. It provides a structured legal framework to support libraries in the digital environment.
On Wednesday, 18 February 2026, the 8th expert meeting of the European Rights Retention Community of Practice took place, where representatives from Finland and Germany presented strategies and challenges for the national implementation of Rights Retention (RR).
The AI Impact Summit 2026 is taking place in India from February 16 to 20, for the fourth time and the first time in the Global South. The three guiding principles of the event are people, planet and progress, in the sense of AI that serves people, uses resources responsibly and is not concentrated in the hands of a few.