On 5 February, COMMUNIA co-organised the Conference on the Secondary Publication Right at the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon alongside, among others, Knowledge Rights 21 and the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Information and Documentation Professionals.
The conference featured speakers from the European Commission, UNESCO as well as academic experts. During the event, a group of civil society stakeholders presented a proposal to introduce a secondary publication right and corresponding obligation into Portuguese legislation.
Following presentations on behalf of the European Commission and UNESCO, the second half of the conference focused on a civil society proposal for a secondary publication right and obligation in Portuguese legislation.
For a complete overview of the conference and a detailed description of the proposal, you can read our event blogpost.
On 5 February, the magnificent Great Hall of the prestigious Academy of Sciences of Lisbon hosted Portugal’s first conference on Secondary Publication Rights (SPR). Not even an extraordinary storm that struck Lisbon for several days could prevent an afternoon of lively discussion on the role legislation should play in advancing Open Access to publicly funded […]
