IPR for researchers: Research and Copyright & Related Rights

Warm welcome to the IPR University Center’s seminar series for university researchers. This is the first part of the series. The second part will delve into industrial property rights and research.

This seminar series is designed for researchers currently working at University of Turku, Hanken School of Economics, University of Helsinki, University of Eastern Finland, University of Lapland, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics or Aalto University. 

This seminar series is part of University of Turku’s Intellectual Property Rights and Research -course. If you’re participating on this course, you do not need to register separately for this event. 

PROGRAM

10.00 – 10.45 Basics of Copyright – What is useful to know about copyright law?
Did you know that whenever you write a paper for your class or a poem, you automatically own the copyright to it? The basics of copyright will teach you the structure of the Copyright Act. An author has an exclusive right to make copies of the work or make the work available to the public and has moral rights to the work. You will get an insight of which works are protected by copyright and who owns the copyright to a work.

Daniël Jongsma, Postdoctoral Researcher, Hanken

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 11.45 Teaching and good practices
Can I use someone else’s work? Can someone else use mine? Whether you are a professor or a student, many occasions will arise where you will want to use the copyrighted works of others. The exclusive rights of the copyright owner are limited. This lecture discusses the main issues to consider when using copyrighted material, including the limitations on the exclusive rights and different types of licenses. You will learn which copyrighted materials can be used for educational purposes without permission from the owners.

Mikko Antikainen, Senior Lecturer, University of Jyväskylä

11.45 – 12.30 Lunch

12.30 – 13.15 Data sharing and visibility
Sharing research outputs – publication and data – is a core value of open science. Sharing research outputs benefit researchers, research community and society. It increases citations, accelerates the development of science and catalyses innovations and improves decision making. Open science can also benefit global equality when the research findings can be found and be accessed freely worldwide. But simply just depositing data in a repository, making research data open, is not enough. What practical measures must be done in order to share data in a  controlled manner so that it gains as much visibility as possible and enables data reusability?  

Päivi Kanerva, Information specialist, University of Tampere 

13.15 – 13.30 Break

13.30 – 14.15 Open source licensing and barriers to commercialisation of research
What is open source licensing? What is the difference between open source and free software? What kind of conditions apply to open source software? What legal considerations come to commercialisation of research, and what kind potential barriers exist to it? The short lecture will address main questions and topics to barriers to formation IP rights to research via the example of open source licensing.

Jalmari Männistö, Associate – Technology & Intellectual property, Roschier Attorneys Ltd.

14.15 – 14.30 Break

14.30 – 15.30 Text and data mining 
What is Text and data mining and how is it regulated? What are the possibilities for research institutions and commercially operating businesses? What requires a prior permission what can be done freely?

Maryna Manteghi, Doctoral Researcher, University of Turku