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Project

Integrating open access to the Belgian copyright governance framework.

Within my postdoctoral research project at the Faculty of Law (University of Antwerp), I examine European and national regulations and policies regarding open access. Open access forms a substantial part of open science and brought a global change towards making research outcomes freely available. The European Commission is committed to improve knowledge circulation and to accelerate the interpretation of open science theory into research practice. As far as the goal of knowledge circulation is concerned, access to information sources is of the utmost importance. In contemporary days, the internet forms an essential mean to provide such access. Unfortunately, copyright regimes are beset by practical difficulties regarding the intellectual protection of online information. In addition, the ongoing technological evolution 'bombards' the copyright laws regime. Consequently, the legislator faces a difficult task to respond quickly and adequately. Therefore, given their knowledge, also other IP stakeholders such as university libraries, national research councils, public libraries, local publishers etc. need to contribute to an efficient framework for copyright governance.This brings me to my central research question: to what extent does the implementation of open access require a modification of the copyright governance framework on national level? To answer this question, I will focus on Belgium as a (first) case study. Through this study, I will propose some recommendations for the further development of copyright policies on a national level. On the basis of these provisional results, different applications for external funding will be made (e.g. FWO postdoc).
Date:1 Apr 2018 →  31 Mar 2019
Keywords:BELGIAN LAW, OPEN ACCESS
Disciplines:Law