The future of Rights Retention to protect researchers' copyright

Conference item : Presentation

In a radically changing intellectual property landscape, how can we re-envision the system to protect research(ers)? We discuss how the current strategies of Rights Retention may need to adapt to fit future challenges 

Please note: This session is intended for colleagues working in higher education libraries and research support roles, including scholarly communications, open research, copyright, and library policy. To enable open discussion, the session will be run as a closed meeting.

– Coordinating Rights Retention: lessons from IRRP implementation and international workflows (Susanna Nykyri and Pablo de Castro) 
– Rights Retention 2.0: a peace settlement for openness, AI, and university stewardship (Eugen Stoica)
– Secondary publishing right vs Rights Retention strategy: choosing one or opting for both? (Erna Sattler)
– Copyright at the breaking point: re-envisioning intellectual property to protect research and researchers (Mamta Bhardwaj)
– Panel discussion (led by Chris Morrison)
– Closing remarks 

Authors: Nykyri, S; de Castro, P; Stoica, E; Sattler, E; Bhardwaj, M

• Publisher: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2026-03-03
• Event title: Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship 2026
• Event location: Online - Virtual conference
• Event website: https://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
• Event start date: 2026-03-02
• Event end date: 2026-03-06
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-ryqxvrdrk
• Language: English
• Keywords: OxFOS
• Subjects: Research
• Subtype: Presentation