Webinar discusses rights retention and open licensing policies

The issues of copyright and open licensing policies in European countries are the focus of a webinar, promoted by SPARC Europe and EIFL, to be held on March 8th. The two-hour online event will provide an update on issues from a range of copyright policymakers that support Open Access.

Among the presenters of the webinar, there are international funders from cOAlition S and the European Commission, and national policymakers from several European countries. The webinar will also receive the Director of Policy at Creative Commons, who will discuss open licensing. The event will end with a panel discussion on the importance of aligning Open Access copyright policy in the future.

The webinar on the actions of international and national copyright policies is aimed at Open Science policymakers, Research Funding Organizations and Research Performing Organization managers, librarians, repository managers and academic institutional copyright experts.

The discussion held during the event will be an update to the report published last year by SPARC Europe, which took stock of copyright policies and the actions of a variety of publishers to identify how much they support Open Access. The study, completed in the summer of 2020, explored copyright and licensing practices among the most prominent scientific journals publishers in Europe and among European journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), investigating copyright retention, self-archiving policies and record publishers' policies on open licensing, also with regard to the requirements of Plan S.

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See the full program of the "International and national copyright policy action for OA" webinar - here (registration at the same link).

When: March 8th, from 2pm to 4pm (CET) / 1pm to 3pm (Portugal)