RuZ - Recht und Zugang

Whenever historic archives and similar institutions make historic documents like records, journals, or manuscripts freely accessible on the Internet, they are bound by certain legal obligations regarding privacy. Protective periods for open online...

Since the amendment of the “Act on Copyright and Related Rights” in 2021 is the “EU- Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives” valid in the country of germany. This put archives and...

In the future, platform operators will be exposed to many different regulatory approaches under EU law. Examples are the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. This article reviews the 8th GRUR Junge Wissenschaft conference and deals with...

With advancing digitalization, online platforms have grown to become an indispensable medium of communication that encompasses almost all areas of society. This development poses a major challenge, especially for the enforcement of states legal...

In the continuation of the essay on the handling of child and youth pornographic documents in the archives, it is examined whether it is possible to present corresponding contents in the reading room apart from criminal law regulations. As long as...

Many paragraphs of the Austrian “Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch” (ABGB) have been in force for over 200 years and have remained largely unaltered linguistically. With the “Modernisation of the ABGB” project, Peter Bydlinski and his...

With Section 37a of the Austrian Copyright Law (öUrhG), the Austrian legislator intended to introduce a provision for secondary exploitation that is essentially modeled on Section 38 (4) of the German Copyright Law (dUrhG). In addition to the...

The Online Commentary (Onlinekommentar) dares to be new. It is the first non-profit platform for Open Access commentaries in Switzerland. It meets the highest level of Open Access: Diamond or Platinum Open Access. This means that the Online...

Scientific research heavily relies on the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information. Thus, access to academic papers and scientific results is crucial for scholars and the broader public. In light of the current academic publishing system, the...

The article presents the initiative for open jurisprudence “OpenRewi”. The original goal of the initiative is to create a supporting infrastructure and platform for legal scholars who want to publish textbooks and other teaching materials, as...

Although the secondary publication right has been enshrined in German and Austrian copyright law, its scope remains limited and open to interpretation. In Switzerland, the secondary publication right was not even included in the last copyright...

Open Access publishing in law and legal studies remains at a low level despite all efforts through institutional awareness campaigns and university and national funding instruments. Do research funding agencies offer effective and adequate funding...

For large, international publishers, open access has long become a business model. Article Processing Charges (APCs), i.e. fees that authors have to pay in order to be able to publish in a journal, are a way for them to secure their revenue. In...

Is accessing court decisions as easy and straightforward as legal scholars assume? Although court decisions are in the public domain according to Section 5 (1) var. 5 UrhG and a duty to publish court decisions is “tacitly” recognised in case law...

digital | recht is a subject-specific, Diamond open access publication series for dissertations. It is free of charge for both readers and authors.

The Data Governance Act does not impose additional obligations on research institutions as a general rule, as far as can be judged at present despite all the uncertainties of interpretation, since research institutions do not fall within the scope...

In continuation of RuZ 2022, 128, this first article of the series presents select recent decisions concerning Regulation (EC) No. 1049/2001, laying down the EU secondary law right of access to documents, of the Court of Justice of the EU and,...

To discuss current topics of good research practice that affect the work of ombudspersons at research institutions, the so-called Ombudssymposium takes place in Germany every two years. Under the heading “What Can and Should Ombudspersons Do?...

The FAIR and CARE principles – as well as other sets of principles – are increasingly gaining attention in research on and within the research data lifecycle. The recent mention of these principles in calls for proposals issued by the German...

During the Corona pandemic, courts consulted and cited scholarly blogs to an unprecedented extent – this is the clear picture that emerges from a systematic evaluation of court decisions by German administrative and constitutional courts during...

In 2018 the UrhWissG was passed to align copyright law with the demands of education and research in a knowledge-based society. Four years later, the evaluation report of the German government has been published, which reflects positively on the...

The evaluations of the Urheberrechts-Wissensgesellschafts-Gesetz („Copyright Knowledge Society Act“) of 2022 paint a positive picture of its impact on digital science and education. The two reports by the BMJ and iRights.Law/BMBF take up the...

At the 14th Göttingen Copyright Conference, a large number of experts from academia and practice addressed current copyright issues. For example, the speakers contributed their views and experiences from projects such as the “Project DEAL” and...