proposed directive

Digital Single Market, European Union, Legislative process

(London School of Economics) and (CREATe, University of Glasgow)/ /Leave a comment

EU copyright reform is upon is. Once again, the Member States will need to develop their own implementations of a new piece of European copyright law. This time, the task is far from easy. Due to political turbulence in the legislative process, the resulting text of the Directive is extremely complex. Because of this, there…

European Union, Ownership

(Institute for Information Law (IViR))/ /1 Comment

On 24 May 2011, the European Commission announced a proposal for a directive on ‘certain permitted uses of orphan works’. This title perfectly conveys the scope of the proposal. Rather than adopting a generic approach to deal with the problem of orphan works, the Commission comes up with a set of measures designed for specific…