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knowledgerights21.org
🎉 Big news! KR21 secures a €5.5M grant extension from the Arcadia Fund, empowering us to push for knowledge rights for 5 more years.
🔗 www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/k...
#UnitedForKnowledgeRights #AccessToKnowledge #AccessToCulture
December 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM
internetarchive.eu
Great news — KVAN has signed the #OurFutureMemory statement, joining nearly 40 organisations in calling for equal digital rights for libraries, archives & museums.
Let’s ensure our future memory remains accessible to all.
🔗 www.kvan.nl/nieuws/kvan-...
#DigitalHeritage #AccessToKnowledge
KVAN ondertekent ‘Our Future Memory’ Statement voor Digitale Rechten van Erfgoed - KVAN
KVAN ondertekent ‘Our Future Memory’ Statement voor Digitale Rechten van Erfgoed
www.kvan.nl
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
knowledgerights21.org
🚨 BREAKING: New report on “Barriers and Enablers for #OpenScience in Copyright Law” by ODIPI with support from KR21.
↪️ Report page: www.knowledgerights21.org/reports/barr...
↪️ Learn how #copyright law blocks Open Science's promise: www.linkedin.com/posts/knowle...
#OpenAccess #AccessToKnowledge
June 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
copykat.bsky.social
A Year of Reading is about more than books 📚

Cities, languages, and copyright shape who gets to read, and how stories travel.

New blog post 👇

blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/2026/04/...

#Reading #Copyright #Languages #Libraries #Culture #AccessToKnowledge
Why a Year of Reading Needs Cities, Languages, and Copyright
blog.lboro.ac.uk
April 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM
communia.bsky.social
📊 Our 2025 Annual Report is out!

Over the past year, COMMUNIA continued working to strengthen the #PublicDomain and improve #accesstoknowledge and #culture across Europe.

Learn more about our impact and read it here 👇
communia-association.org/2026/03/05/c...
March 5, 2026 at 12:20 PM
dinosensenews.bsky.social
🚨 Public libraries are under attack, with funding disappearing in multiple states—and now federally too. What’s the endgame here?
📺 Watch the latest episode of Dino-Sense News to find out. 🦖🔥
#DinoSenseNews #LibraryFunding #DefundEducation #AccessToKnowledge #NewsWithBite
Episode 28: "Defunding Libraries: Who Wins When Knowledge Disappears?"
YouTube video by Dino Sense News
youtu.be
March 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
knowledgerights21.org
2025 KDBASP CONFERENCE RECAP
@centrumcyfrowe.bsky.social’s @majadrabczyk.bsky.social, KR21 Polish coordinator, reflects on 2 library-focused panels, with KR21 representation, exploring #AccessToKnowledge, #CDSM & the need for library voices in policy debates (#ERAact)
🔗 kr21.info/kdbasp-confe...
October 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
mobilize-za.bsky.social
A powerful move by South Africa’s Constitutional Court—affirming that access to knowledge is a matter of dignity and equality for people with disabilities.

If the law can evolve to recognise this, what’s stopping the rest of the world? 

saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/…#AccessToKnowledgege
https://saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/…
May 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
knowledgerights21.org
🙌 Join KR21 & NSZVO on 12 Dec for a #Copyright & #OpenScience roundtable in Zagreb!
Iva Melinščak Zlodi, KR21’s national coordinator for Croatia, moderates a discussion on advancing #AccessToKnowledge with experts from Zagreb University.
📽️ Watch: www.youtube.com/@nszvo
🔗 www.nsz.hr/novosti-i-ob...
December 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM
knowledgerights21.org
FROM UNIVERSITY HALLS IN OPOLE TO PROGRESS IN LIBRARIES ACROSS EUROPE!
Join the KR21-network on 25-26 Sept for KDBASP’s annual congress at Opole University, thanks to @centrumcyfrowe.bsky.social
Check out the Fri panels (11:30-13:15) on #CDSM & #AccessToKnowledge
🔗 kdbasp.bg.uni.opole.pl/kdbasp2025/
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
knowledgerights21.org
🤖 The UK needs a broad #TDM exception for #AI #innovation!
Tune in to the 8 April (14:00 BST) @datainnovation.org webinar to hear Ben White promote KR21’s vision of how the UK could position itself at the forefront of the AI revolution.
🔗 datainnovation.org/2025/04/why-...
#AccessToKnowledge
April 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
c2dh.uni.lu
We're looking forward to the talk by Jo Guldi about the role of technology and data in modern governance.
📅 Join us on 25 April at 11 am in #Belval
#DigitalHumanities #AccessToKnowledge #Democracy #history #QuantitativeMethods
➡️ wwwuni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
An Infrastructure for Reparative Democracy: An Agenda for Evidence From Below
Talk by Jo Guldi, Full Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory University, Atlanta.
www.uni.lu
March 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
afas.africa
🌍 Join us for an info event on #Research4Life! 📚

🗓️ Date: 20th Feb 2025
Learn how to access FREE/low-cost peer-reviewed journals & insights from experts! 🌱🎓

Register: www.digiface.org/information-...
#AccessToKnowledge #ScienceForAll
Information event on Research4Life (access to peer reviewed journals and papers)
Where: Zoom, please register here. When: 20.02.2025 13h00 Senegal, 14h00 Germany/Niger, 15h00 South Africa, 16h00 Kenya Research4Life provides institutions in lower income countries with free or low-c...
www.digiface.org
February 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
publishingpills.bsky.social
Did you know millions of people still face barriers to accessing information? #Accessibility isn’t just a legal requirement,it’s a human right.Let’s break down why(pt1) #InclusivePublishing #AccessibilityMatters #PublishingPills #DigitalInclusion #Libraries #Publishing #Research #AccessToKnowledge
December 12, 2024 at 2:13 PM
knowledgerights21.org
#ITALY'S SCHOOL PUBLISHING MARKET NEEDS REFORM!
KR21 & partners submitted a joint response to the Italian competition authority’s (AGCM) investigation.
Let’s remember: #AccessToKnowledge is a right, not a privilege.
🔗 Learn more in Deborah De Angelis' blog: www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/i...
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
knowledgerights21.org
2/📣 Have your say: Contribute to the European Commission’s survey on #AI in #Science by 5 June 2025. Stand up for open and fair access to data for research! 👉 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
#AccessToKnowledge #AccessToData #UnitedForKnowledgeRights
April 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
knowledgerights21.org
2/ 👏 Friday is for sharing & caring!
🥖 Moving to France: Ophélie Wang will be sharing KR21’s perspective on fostering #AccessToKnowledge at the '#PrintempsCouperin' in Paris from 19-21 March 2025
↪️ www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/p...
#Couperin
February 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
omshivaprakash.bsky.social
Delhi High Court's Ruling Against Publishers is a Triumph For Knowledge: https://t.co/VYUQAZkd8b #copyright #AccessToKnowledge
December 7, 2024 at 10:52 AM
omshivaprakash.bsky.social
We will be able to scan several million pages per month here. @internetarchive #AccessToKnowledge #OpenAccess #OpenKnowledge
December 7, 2024 at 10:40 AM
decompostela.bsky.social
"Reading itself is brain training, and unlike regular reading, going to a library offers unexpected book encounters, broadening knowledge. Library events can also stimulate intellectual curiosity."

Another reason to protect and inhabit these essential spaces.

#Libraries #Health #AccessToKnowledge
June 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
create-glasgow.bsky.social
📢 #CREATe at 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 – Recordings available

We’re pleased to share a dedicated playlist featuring the recordings of CREATe’s contributions to European Public Domain Day 2026 at the Royal Library of Belgium.
#PublicDomain #Copyright #CreativeCommons #AccessToKnowledge #IPLaw
CREATe at European Public Domain Day 2026 - YouTube
On 15 January 2026, a delegation from CREATe joined European Public Domain Day 2026 at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. The event began with a keyno...
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2026 at 1:24 PM
southcentre.bsky.social
#WIPO #CopyrightReform #AccessToKnowledge #IntellectualProperty #SCCR #Copyright #PublicInterest
@knowledgegov.bsky.social
April 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM
southcentre.bsky.social
Progress on #copyright limitations and exceptions at @wipo.int matters for development and #accesstoknowledge. Prof. Faith O. Majekolagbe's new analysis, produced by South Centre and @knowledgegov.bsky.social, examines the African Group's proposed instrument and ...
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
southcentre.bsky.social
At #SCCR46, developing countries demanded real progress on #copyright limitations & exceptions and warned against expanding broadcasting rights that risk limiting #accesstoknowledge.

Read the full analysis: us5.campaign-archive.com?u=fa9cf38799...
April 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
thecontechcrew.bsky.social
Everyone deserves access to AI tools.

🎧 Listen to the full episode https://youtu.be/D9VZJ2qGRFg

#AIForAll #TechEquity #KnowledgeIsPower #ConstructionTech #FutureOfAI #AccessToKnowledge
January 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM