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Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law

 
Thursday, 26 October 2017

Article 13 of the Proposed EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and the accompanying Recital 38 are amongst the most controversial parts of the European Commission’s copyright reform package. In September, several Members States (Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany) submitted a set of questions on aspects of those proposals that are essential to the guarantee of fundamental rights in the EU and to the future of the Internet as an open communication medium.

Seeking to offer guidelines and background information for the improvement of the proposed legislation, a group of academics today published a Recommendation discussing the submitted questions in the light of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The initiative for the Recommendation was taken by Professor Martin Senftleben of the Free University of Amsterdam. The drafting team included CIPIL's Christina Angelopoulos, as well as well as Dr Giancarlo Frosio (Université de Strasbourg, CEIPI and Stanford Law School, CIS); Dr Valentina Moscon (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Università degli Studi di Trento, Faculty of Law); Dr Miquel Peguera (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society) and Professor Ole Andreas Rognstad (University of Oslo).

Fifty six other academics and legal scholars have signed the Recommendation to date.

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