In the framework of Open Administration Week, the Tuesday, 19 May The Transparency and Good Governance Council (CTBG) resumes its cycle “Seminars on transparency and access to information”, with a session entitled “Open the information, protect the creation. The tension between the right of access to public information and intellectual property.”

In this seminar we will have expert professionals who will analyze, from different perspectives, the limit to access to public information contemplated in article 14.1 j) of the Transparency Law: intellectual and industrial property.

Is it appropriate to grant access to a publicly funded innovation project? And the source code of an application used by the Administration to make automated decisions if it has been designed by an external company? How is the right of access or public information and the right to intellectual and industrial property reconciled in these cases? Do any of these rights prevail? How will the extension of AI and technology affect the invocation of this limit? What jurisprudence is there in the matter?

These and other questions will be answered in the seminar, which will begin the 16:30 hours. They participate as speakers:

• Ibán García del Blanco, graduate in law, in his time as an MEP he was one of the promoters and negotiators of the European Regulation of Artificial Intelligence.
• Coloma Barceló Fontanals, Director of the Area of Legal Services and Contracting at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
• Antonio Bueno Armijo, counsel for the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court.

The session was presented by the president of the CTBG, Concepción Campos Acuñaand moderates the Council’s Assistant Director-General for State Claims, Marta Timón Herrero. The seminar will take place in the AIReF Auditorium (C/ José Abascal, 2. 2nd floor. Madrid).

Given the limitation of capacity, it is essential to register in advance in the following email: presidencia@consejodetransparencia.es