As part of the Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), the Bodleian Libraries will host a discussion between leading experts in the fields of copyright scholarship, librarianship and publishing to debate the role copyright law reform might play in advancing open access publishing. Keynote speaker Professor John Willinsky (Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, Public Knowledge Project) will present his talk ‘Achieving Sustainable Universal Open Access through Copyright Reform’:
“A presentation on the potential role that copyright reform might play in advancing open access to research publications at a fair price. Copyright has been updated for the digital area in almost every area of communication and culture, except research and scholarship, while current consensus among scholarly publishing stakeholders on the value of open access — even as progress toward to this ideal is proving far too slow and expensive — makes open access the perfect focus for changing the law. An example of what such a reform could look like will discussed in legal terms, as well as with regard to its implications for universities.”
To get more information and register : https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/20bde4bd-d60b-40b4-86eb-4df624d6d139/
Eventbrite link : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-copyright-tickets-52346020…