At the symposium, distinguished legal experts discussed selected current legal issues of electronic commerce and of information technologies: dr. Bojan Bugarič: E-democracy and e-government - Pros and Cons dr. Saša Zagorc: Electronic voting Neža Pogorelčnik: Electronic service of documents dr. Matija Damjan: Internet access as a fundamental right dr. Peter Grilc: Misleading advertising and the Internet dr. Soren Jakobsen Sandfeld: Legal Problems of Mobile Internet dr. Damjan Možina: Conclusion of contracts with consumers via the Internet dr. Jerca Kramberger Škerl: Violation of personal rights via the Internet in the EU: international jurisdiction and conflict of laws dr. Miha Juhart: Copyright and free access to scientific achievements dr. May Bogataj Jančič: Digitisation of works in libraries dr. Klemen Podobnik: Political Economy of the Internet - intellectual property, competition law and the Internet
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 11595857The Institute has organized an international scientific conference devoted to the regulation of the instruments of protection of consumers in respect of different types of transactions over the Internet. At the conference, 15 domestic and foreign lecturers, including several members of the programme group, presented the results of their research work concerning the current problems in this area, in terms of national legal systems and legal order of the European Union, which is increasingly harmonising the regulation of these issues of the digital single market.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
Ana Vlahek and Aleš Galič prepared for the Ministry of Justice the expert basis for the adoption of the Law on collective actions, which introduced into Slovenian procedural law for the first time this instrument of collective protection of rights. Collective action is becoming very topical in the field of online business, where a company's unlawful conduct may affected a large number of end users in a similar way. In preparation of the law, a completely new electronic register of collective redress was designed, which will be conducted by the competent court or by the Agency for Public Legal Records and Related Services. They also lectured on the new regulation at a conference for judges and other professionals.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
COBISS.SI-ID: 15180625Since 2001, the Institute has been organising annually a scientific legal conference "The Civil Law Days", which has evolved into the the central meeting of Slovenian lawyers working in the field of private law in academic circles, in judiciary and in business. Each conference is focused on a set of selected topical issues of civil and commercial law, defined narrowly so as to enable indepth discussion combining legal theory and practice. Memers of the programme group have participated as lecturers at the conferences, discussing, inter alia, various legal problems of information society, such as consumer Protection in contracting over the Internet, copyright in the digital environment, competition relationships between providers of information society services, the liability of Internet intermediaries.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 13720657The research studied the possibilities of making publicly available through the Internet the scientific, educational and cultural works commissioned or financed by the Slovene state that are part of public collections in libraries, museums, archives etc. Open access to such works is important for overall economic and social development: for the transfer of knowledge and the transparency of public funding as well as an encouragement for cultural and scientific development of society. The institutions and individuals involved (contracting authorities, creators and users of authors’ works, libraries …) are often paralysed by copyright restrictions. Therefore, a coordinated plan is needed on various social levels: from the modifications of law and contracts to the modifications of public support schemes and the introduction of new assignments for public institutions in order to enable them to continue their work in public interest in the digital era. A premise of the research was that open access models have to be adapted to the specific historical, social and economic ways of financing, creating, and distributing scientific, educational, and cultural works. For this reason, the research sought to fulfil two tasks: first, a sociological analysis of the situation was performed (classification of authors’ works in concern, identification of social agents and analysis of the conditions of creation). Based on these assessments, legal solutions for the establishment of various open access models for scientific, educational, and cultural works were prepared.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 10905937The article discusses certain conflicts that arise between the traditional models of collective management of copyright and related rights and the emergence of the Internet as the main channel for a wide distribution of creative works in a digital form. By its technical nature, the Internet tends towards global accessibility of all its contents; copyright, on the other hand, is still territorially based and managed by national collecting societies. The European Commission has been promoting the possibility of a unified rights management for online use of works on the EU level. Using free licences, such as Creative Commons licences, authors can grant rights for any use of their works anywhere in the world, but their autonomy to do so is limited by the rules on mandatory collective rights management. Collective societies' rules prevent their members from free licensing just some of their works, which prevents young authors from using the full potential of the Internet as means of independent promotion and breakthrough on the market.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 2753992At the closing conference, organised within the EU project "Dimensions of evidence in European civil procedure", the most important topics in the field of cross-border evidence were addressed by recognised European experts in this field. Special attention was paid to information technology and electronic evidence, where the participants had the opportunity to address the various issues associated with e-documents from the practical point of view. Interactive scientific conference was devoted to the wider interested public.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 14178129The rapid and significant change that takes place in high-technology industries is shaking some of our assumptions regarding the role of technology (for example, endogenous or exogenous), productions methods (for example, commercial entities versus social communities), markets (for example, product or innovation markets), market characteristics (for example, network industries, faster information transfer to market players and consumers), and non-market management systems.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 14103121The lecture examines the question of whether the doctrine of necessity under contemporary international law permits a State to react to an imminent or potential attack carried out by digital means or to take countermeasures against such cyberattack.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 13631569The author was a visting professor at Riga Graduate School of Law, lecturing on European Union law.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 14971729