Discover the data.europa academy: Second course, ‘Understanding the
legal side of open data’
The second course of the restructured data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/news/dataeuropa-academy-discover-our-11-open-data-courses]
aims to enhance the understanding of how legislation and regulations
can impact the publication and reuse of open data. The course
‘Understanding the legal side of open data’
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/understanding-legal-side-open-data]
introduces the different types of open data licenses and provides
information and tools to select the appropriate one. Furthermore, it
presents the current legal challenges related to the use and
distribution of open data. 

The course consists of three lessons. The first lesson, Open data
licensing [https://data.europa.eu/en/open-data-licensing], explains
the concept of open data licensing and what it means in practice.
Through e-learning modules, reading materials, videos, and tools you
will learn how to differentiate between licenses, build a
machine-readable open license and use the data.europa.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/en] licensing tool. The second lesson,
Introduction to data protection
[https://data.europa.eu/en/introduction-data-protection], delves
deeper into open data and privacy, the importance of data governance
and explores the impact of legislations on data ecosystems. The third
lesson, Introduction to intellectual property and competition law
[https://data.europa.eu/en/introduction-intellectual-property-and-competition-law],
provides reading materials and videos to help you understand the
current state of intellectual property law and competition law, along
with their challenges. As an example, the recording of the data.europa
academy [https://data.europa.eu/en/academy] webinar ‘Competition law
in the data economy: how will the evolving legal landscape affect data
markets?’ will help you better understand the competition law and
its impact.

The constantly evolving data ecosystems pose legal challenges on the
use and distribution of open data. By following this second
data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/understanding-legal-side-open-data]
course, you will gain a better understanding of current and upcoming
legislations and explore the full potential of open data!

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Publication Date/Time
2023-05-26T07:00:00+00:00
Learn what is covered in the second course of the data.europa academy,
diving deeper into legislation and regulations regarding open data