The future of copyright: achieving sustainable universal open access through copyright reform (a debate)

Conference item : Presentation

As part of the Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), the Bodleian Libraries will host a discussion between leading experts in the fields of copyright scholarship, librarianship and publishing to debate the role copyright law reform might play in advancing open access publishing. Keynote speaker Professor John Willinsky (Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, Public Knowledge Project) will present his talk Achieving Sustainable Universal Open Access through Copyright Reform:

“A presentation on the potential role that copyright reform might play in advancing open access to research publications at a fair price. Copyright has been updated for the digital area in almost every area of communication and culture, except research and scholarship, while current consensus among scholarly publishing stakeholders on the value of open access — even as progress toward to this ideal is proving far too slow and expensive — makes open access the perfect focus for changing the law. An example of what such a reform could look like will discussed in legal terms, as well as with regard to its implications for universities.”

Professor Asuncion Esteve Pardo (University of Barcelona) will provide a European civil law perspective on Prof Willinsky’s presentation and share the findings from her own research into the relationship between copyright and open access.

The proposals raised in both presentations will then be discussed by a panel which will include Chris Banks, Director of Library Services, Imperial College London and Andy Redman, Director of Open Access, Oxford University Press.

Authors: Willinsky, J; Esteve Pardo, A; Banks, C; Redman, A; Morrison, C

• Publisher: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2023-03-08
• Event title: Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship 2023
• Event location: Online - Virtual conference
• Event website: https://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
• Event start date: 2023-03-06
• Event end date: 2023-03-15
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-nz6eb8ykq
• Language: English
• Keywords: OxFOS; copyright; universal open access
• Subjects: Research
• Subtype: Presentation