In the presence of Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed yesterday between European libraries, publishers, authors, and their collecting…
As highlighted in a previous post by one of my fellow Kluwer Copyright bloggers, and others, a proposal by the European Commission for a directive on an extension of the…
…as France, the UK and Denmark. At EU level, the European Commission has recently stated that it intends to identify ways to combat infringements of IPR via the internet more…
…online distribution of audiovisual works in the European Union: opportunities and challenges towards a digital single market”, the European Commission focuses on rights clearance mechanism for the online distribution of…
…question to the European Court of Justice for clarification. In the view of the Court, live streaming retransmission amounts to authorisation of reproduction of a substantial part of the films,…
On 19 November 1992, the European Council adopted the Directive 92/100/EEC on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property…
…issue that the European Audiovisual Observatory has decided to make it the subject of an IRIS plus entitled “Who Pays for Private Copying?”. More information about this publication can be…
…pending before the European Court of Justice (ECJ). U.S. appellate court decisions in the Lotus v. Borland and Computer Associates v. Altai cases answered these questions with a resounding “no.”…
On the 24th of May 2011 the European Commission has issued a Communication containing its Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) strategy. The document has a promising title: “A Single Market for…
…is a complex one, to put it diplomatically. Last week, the European Parliament adopted a new directive that might bring some fresh wind into what threatened to become a stale…
