RuZ - Recht und Zugang

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...

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...