Speaker
Description
In my talk I will provide an overview of the ongoing European debate on copyright and education, with a focus on the educational exception. I will present an approach that places educational goals first, and copyright policy only as a secondary, instrumental factor. I will give arguments for a strong educational exception and an open norm, as necessary to support modern education. I will also present an approach that sees copyright reform and voluntary open licensing (of educational resources, but also research content and data) as complimentary approaches that secure basic freedoms and support innovation and modernisation across the fields of education and research. Such an approach is the basis of policy work that we have been conducting as Communia, the European association on the Digital Public Domain. Based on this approach, we have been conducting a range of research projects that provide much needed evidence for the ongoing policy process - I will present our research on educational practices and a legal study that proposed a “barometer” for measuring the strength of educational exceptions across Europe.
