On October 28 and 29 2021,  InternetLab and Open Future hosted a workshop at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, with the goal of establishing a study and discussion group on the role and function of copyright in the complex landscape of platforms, technologies, work conditions, and business models that characterize the current media ecosystem. A detailed report of the materials presented in the sessions can be found here.

In addition to this inaugural workshop, the two organizations are editing a new series with articles, essays, and analyses under the title GCWORKSHOP: Copyright and the Digital Economy, for which a call for submissions can be found below. The new publication was conceived as an experimental vehicle, aiming to constitute a knowledge base, a laboratory of ideas with materials for provocation and debate, a tool for the identification and prioritization of research and advocacy issues, as well as a starting point for the organization of future sessions within the Global Congress and related events.

Contributions must be in English, up to 10,000 words, and related to the overarching mission of the Global Congress: bridging research and advocacy to advance a public interest agenda for intellectual property, focusing on copyright and the digital economy. For more information, check out the call for contributions.

We invite the Global Congress community of researchers and advocates, and anyone interested in the relationship between copyright and the digital economy, to join us by submitting materials and reflections. The initial deadline for contributions, which must be sent to gc.workshop@internetlab.org.br, is August 31 2022.