{"id":27879,"date":"2025-09-09T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/?post_type=vo_project&p=27879"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:09:30","slug":"the-fundamental-right-to-research-copyright-and-digital-libraries-project-page","status":"publish","type":"vo_project","link":"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/nl\/projecten\/the-fundamental-right-to-research-copyright-and-digital-libraries-project-page\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fundamental Right to Research, Copyright and Digital Libraries Project Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to the homepage for the PhD project
“The Fundamental Right to Research and New Impulses in Copyright Law to Support Digital Library Functions<\/strong>“.

This project is carried out by Etienne Valk<\/strong><\/mark><\/a> <\/mark>and supervised by Prof. Martin Senftleben<\/strong><\/mark><\/a>, <\/mark>Dr. Jo\u00e3o Quintais<\/strong><\/mark><\/a> and Dr. Elena Izyumenko<\/strong><\/mark><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Libraries and researchers have long been working in tandem to help society move forward. No research without libraries, and no libraries without research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely, for that electrifying tandem, an indispensable fuel as well as an end goal in and of themselves, are scientific publications. Copyrighted works, mostly. Through several cycles of copyright reform, exceptions have been developed for research in relation to exclusive copyrights. Increasingly, in the legal debate, a right to research is mentioned in passing. But does the current fundamental rights framework actually provide a basis for such a right? And if so, what implications would such a right have for the copyright acquis <\/em>and specific, still unclear areas such as the TDM exception provisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will be informed by the following four central digital library freedoms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n