. Copyright was originally designed to protect the author and to provide incentives for him to create for the benefit of society … information through copyright (understood here in an extended sense, including neighbouring and sui generis rights). Secondly, it …; second, re-establishing these principles through rules outside copyright law, such as competition law, media law and …

Copyright, at international, European, and national levels, does not provide a legal framework that prioritizes …-friendly copyright ecosystem has so far failed to evolve. By revisiting international and European human and fundamental rights … provides a convincing argument to rethink copyright towards a research-oriented normative system …

Commission's Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market of … 14 September 2016 — and more generally any step towards copyright reform in the European Union — is of particular … interest to CEIPI, which hereby intends to react on the proposal to introduce in EU copyright law neighbouring rights for press …

copyright holders' right to property. To this end, it analyses the recent key decisions on the matter from two major European …

rights and more particularly to copyright. Its principal characteristic, however, lies in the inclusion of intellectual … legislators in the necessary implementation of a balanced and effective copyright law in Europe …

copyright holders’ right to property. To this end, it analyses the recent key decisions on the matter from two major European …

This chapter discusses the evolution in jurisprudential understanding of the relationship between copyright and freedom … have accepted a “fair use” approach that applies fundamental rights as external limitations to copyright law, in compliance … copyright law on a case-by-case basis and shows that, although long contested, such an approach is now mandated by EU primary …

blocking effects of exclusivity in order to foster the reuse of copyright-protected material. In these cases, the use of … statutory remuneration rights would help the copyright system to fulfil its basic function and to safeguard important … rights has also some constraints as they need to comply with obligations resulting from international copyright law …