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The COVID-19 pandemic has consolidated a double move. On the one hand, universities are becoming increasingly aware of the strategic value of copyright. On the other hand, the necessity to embrace distance education is making universities realise that there is a wealth of issues that go beyond ownership of research outputs and reprography rights. Understanding the role of universities as copyright subjects today requires understanding the rise of the ‘platformisation’ of learning, which this ...

This paper agues that the passage of time cannot be understood in a certain ‘objective’ manner; it is not something comprehensible ‘as from no one and nowhen’. This does not mean that its reality should be denied, that we should lower our sights to explaining instead the experience of time as passing. Rather, passage is to be elaborated in the context of a metaphysical account of the subject in time – an account, that is, of being in time.

This paper defends journalism and press freedom as human rights, on the basis of a ‘naturalistic’ approach to such rights. Three fundamental human interests – in education about current affairs, legitimate authority, and a voice in public debate – are identified as grounds for a human right, held by each and every one of us, that journalistic communication be engaged in for our sake. The journalist’s role-based rights to communicate are argued to be themselves of high priority importance beca...