Watch the recording of the webinar ‘Understanding open data: legal
openness`
The webinar ‘Understanding open data: legal openness’ was held on
18 November 2022. This was the third webinar of the data.europa
academy series dedicated to data providers and focused on what data
openness entails from a legal perspective and how it can be optimally
achieved. The goal of the webinar was not to provide purely
theoretical legal training, but also to identify best practices and
resources that data providers can use to achieve openness and to
realise when openness cannot be achieved.  

In the first part of the webinar, Hans Graux, lawyer at Timelex
[https://www.timelex.eu/en], provided an introduction on how to
translate the ‘openness philosophy’ to the legal environment and
focused on the EU Member States’ approach to it. He explained the
tools and best practices for data providers, such as transferring of
Intellectual Property rights
[https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/doing-business-eu/intellectual-property-rights_en],
moral rights policies, as well model licences. He also cited practical
examples of openness via APIs and of EU Member States’ licences used
to share open data.

In the second part of the webinar, the floor was given to Jean-Paul
Triaille, legal officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research
Centre
[https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre_en] in
the unit for intellectual property. Firstly, he explained the European
Commission’ s approach to legal openness, especially in relation to
documents, data, software, scientific articles. In this respect,
Jean-Paul elaborated in particular on the scope of the legal decision
to reuse documents and went through the six creative commons licences
[https://creativecommons.org/2019/04/02/european-commission-adopts-cc-by-and-cc0-for-sharing-information/].
Secondly, he explained the concept of copyright by using the example
of the copyright notice of the EU Council
[https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/about-site/copyright/]´s website.

To learn more about the insights of this webinar, including the
interactive Q&A session, you can watch the recording
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53QdDf4LJN0] and consult the slides
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/course/20221118_data.europa.eu_webinar_legal%20openness.pdf]
here on data.europa academy ‘Learning corner for data providers
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/learning-corner-data-providers]’.

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