RuZ - Recht und Zugang

Copyright law avoids qualitative evaluations when defining the concept of a work. Firstly, the level of creation for a work is bent interpretatively. Secondly, small siblings are added to the work legislatively in the form of ancillary copyrights...

Theoretically, we could live in a global knowledge society. Practically, however, we do not. The reasons are manyfold – some have to do with copyright law. The article presents three case studies. They stem from different legal and cultural...

29 September 2022 marked the passing of Daniel Hürlimann, an open access pioneer and Switzerland’s first professor of law and computer science (legal informatics). A researcher, attorney, journal editor, book publisher, NGO activist, and father...

In its Chamber judgment in the case of Šeks v. Croatia (Application No. 39325/20) of 3 February 2022, the ECtHR unanimously found that the denial of an access request aimed at the subsequent publication of secret presidential files held by the...

Völkerrechtsblog’s hybrid conference “Opening Access, Closing the Knowledge Gap – International Legal Scholarship going online” aimed to expand the notion of ‘open access’ from a mere standard of publication to the continuous and active...

Divided into two parts, this article showcases, by focusing on access to public documents, the freedom of information frameworks at the European level. Part 1 considers the EU, which is the only supranational organization that has subjected itself...

The handling of child and youth pornography in archives has become more sensitive in recent years. This was triggered on the one hand by the discovery of corresponding photos in a teacher's estate in the Wiesbaden State Archives and on the other...

The German Research Foundation has presented a comprehensive analysis of current (mis)developments with the position paper "Academic publishing as a Foundation and Area of leverage for Research Assessment". She tries to counteract this by adapting...

The spread of misinformation and hate speech has led to calls for a more active role of social networks when it comes to curating content. Others fear censorship and arbitrariness. In this stormy debate, Meta decided to share the responsibility for...

Academic freedom is under threat. Many challenges, old and new, are currently leading to an increasing erosion of the freedoms of scholars. On the 11th and 12th of November, 2021, re:constitution, in collaboration with Matej Avbelj of New...