UNESCO Expert Meeting on Open Science and IPRs | EIFL

EIFL’s Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, Teresa Hackett, will attend ‘Towards a Global Consensus on Open Science - Online Expert Meeting on Open Science and Intellectual Property Rights’ organized by UNESCO. UNESCO is leading the development of an international standard-setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. Recognizing the policy challenges to balance openness and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection, UNESCO is organizing an expert meeting to discuss the relationships between IPRs and Open Science, to present the different existing instruments and mechanisms that reconcile ownership and sharing/openness, and to exchange views on balanced IPRs and Open Science policies and strategies.