Copyright infra development (portal of dialogue)

Developing the Copyright Infrastructure 2020-2022

OKM020:00/2020 Development

The subgroups for copyright infrastructure meet in different configurations including workshops to discuss topical issues related to practices on identifiers in the creative field, metadata, technology and infrastructure development, and legal issues linked to data and IP. A draft roadmap has been developed during year 2021. In 2022 focus on NFT's, data protection and EDICs (European Digital Infrastructure Consortium).

Project status

12.8.2020 Term starts
9.6.2020 Discussions about developing the copyright infrastructure In progress 12.8.2020 Practices subgroup 1/3 meeting In progress 12.8. – 11.9.2020 Meeting times of the Subgroups In progress 14.8.2020 Tech subgroup 1/3 meeting In progress 25.8.2020 Legal issues subgroup 1/3 In progress 31.8.2020 Practises subgroup meeting 2/3 In progress 4.9.2020 Tech subgroup 2/3 meeting In progress 7.9.2020 Legal issues 2/3 meeting In progress 10.9.2020 Practises subgroup 3/3 meeting In progress 11.9.2020 Tech subgroup 3/3 meeting In progress 11.9.2020 Legal issues 3/3 meeting In progress 6.10.2020 Discussion at the Copyright Delegation meeting In progress 1.12.2020 Workshop 1 on copyright infrastructure: Digiskills & metadata In progress 7.12.2020 WORKSHOP 2: Copyright infrastructure: data protection, incentives & scope In progress 8.12.2020 Discussion at the National Copyright Delegation meeting In progress 9.2.2021 WORKSHOP 3: Data terms in agreements In progress 16.2.2021 WORKSHOP 4: Synergies of the Copyright infrastructure In progress 13.4.2021 Discussion at the National Copyright Delegation In progress 21.4.2021 Workshop 5 Registration of Copyright (English) In progress 28.4.2021 Workshop 6: State of Play on Copyright infrastructure (English) In progress 24.6.2021 Commission Study on Copyright and New technologies In progress 1.9.2021 Discussion at the National Copyright Delegation In progress 5.10.2021 Data&IP - Round Table Discussion In progress 16.11.2021 State of play in Different industries on identifiers and metadata standards In progress 17.11.2021 WIPO Lunch time webinar on Copyright Infrastructure In progress 10.3.2022 Workshop 7: Copyright infrastructure workshop organized by YLE Broadcasting company In progress 16.3.2022 Study on copyright and new technologies In progress 24.3. – 31.8.2022 Data protection & Copyright infrastructure In progress 20.6. – 21.6.2022 European Union common data spaces and the future orientation of Finnish copyright stakeholders In progress 19.7.2022 IP, Frontier Technologies and AI In progress 18.10.2022 Discussion on progress at the National Copyright Delegation's meeting In progress 26.10.2022 GESAC - Study on the place and role of authors and composers in the European music streaming market In progress 1.12.2022 Intellectual Property Rights and Distributed Ledger Technology with a focus on art NFTs and tokenized art In progress 16.2.2023 Establishment of an EDIC for Copyright Infra In progress 7.6.2023 Pre-Notification of Copyright Infrastructure EDIC In progress 12.6.2023 ”COPYRIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE” Svenska Föreningen för Upphovsrätt (SFU), våravslutning In progress 28.9.2023 Metadata and the Copyright Act In progress
28.11.2023 Term ends

Basic information Planned

Project number OKM020:00/2020

Case numbers OKM020:00/2020

Set by Ministry of Education and Culture

Term/schedule 12.8.2020 – 28.11.2023

Date of appointment 9.6.2020

Goals and results

The progress is reported at the meetings of the Finnish Copyright Delegation to discuss next steps. The discussions supports the work taking place within the creative sectors and on EU and global level.
The Finnish Strategy for Intellectual Property Rights 2030 calls for incentives and investments to be increased
- to build application programming interfaces that facilitate data sharing required for efficient management of copyright data (APIs).
- the structure of the renewal of Finnish creative industries will be reformed by investing in training programmes on copyright data (persistent identifiers) in all industries that enable the introduction of data-driven new technologies in the creative industries.
Similar investments are mentioned in the Roadmap created in the development project of the National Copyright infrastructure. The role of the Ministry of Education and Culture has been to facilitate the discussions from various perspectives, bring together experts from business, legal, tech and society and develop incentives to develop the technical copyright infrastructure so that it serves all users of the system from the authors and rightholders to commercial and non-commercial users.

Summary

The subgroups for copyright infrastructure meet in different configurations including workshops to discuss topical issues related to practices on identifiers in the creative field, metadata, technology and infrastructure development, and legal issues linked to data and IP. A draft roadmap has been developed during year 2021. In 2022 focus on NFT's, data protection and EDICs (European Digital Infrastructure Consortium).

Starting points

The EU Communication IP Action Plan from 2020 mentions the need to develop a functioning copyright infrastructure. The Copyright Infrastructure is defined in the Action Plan as a set of rules, technologies and institutions that provide a framework for information management practices in the creative sectors.
During its Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2019, Finland emphasized the need to develop the copyright infrastructure, i.e. the practices concerning the submission of data on works and authors, incl. identifiers, tags, standards and data sharing formats. Finland also aims to support the development of a human centered, balanced and thriving European data economy. As part of this work, the growth and competitiveness of the creative industries were also taken into account, e.g. At the Data Economy Conference in Helsinki on November 25-26, 2019. The data principles promoting the sharing and use of data were developed together with the assistance of the industries and Sitra (https://dataprinciples2019.fi/). In the draft EU data regulation (Art. 35) from 2022, it has been proposed to clarify that the sui generis protection based on the database directive would not extend to machine-generated data (MGD) produced by machines or services.

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