EU Copyright: Just Like a New IP Lawyer? (Eleonora Rosati)
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Who Owns the Arts and the Sciences?New IP Lawyers Inaugural Conference
Exeter, 22 and 23 June 2015
Dr Eleonora Rosati
@eLAWnora
EU Copyright: Just Like a New IP Lawyer?
Contents
• EU copyright reform debate• Quick recap: what happened before• The Reda Report• The Digital Single Market Strategy
• What’s in there• What is missing .. but features elsewhere
• Is there such thing as an age of EU copyright reform?
• Can any parallels be drawn with new IP lawyers?
EU copyright reform debate
Once upon a (copyright) dream …
We may go all the way back to 1988 …
… but maybe it’s OK just to stop at 2014• The Public Consultation• Access to content and licence segmentation • Exclusive rights
• Making available to the public• Hyperlinking and browsing • Digital exhaustion
• Exceptions and limitations• Formalities • Duration and identifiers• Fair remuneration• Civil enforcement and role of ISPs• More harmonisation?
What came next?
A couple of leaked draft documents …
• Impact Assessment: further harmonisation• From doing nothing to European copyright code and everything in between,
including soft law and new directive(s)
• White Paper• Premature to address digital exhaustion and e-lending • Maybe revising research exception (TDM)• More harmonisation of private copying levies
New Parliament
New Commission New … era?
Reda Report
556 amendments presented
The Digital Single Market Strategy
Getting rid of all the
“pointless barriers”?
The Digital Single Market Strategy• 3 pillars
1. Better access for consumers and businesses to online goods and services across Europe
2. Creating the right conditions for digital networks and services to flourish3. Maximising the growth potential of European digital economy
• Translated into copyright language:
What is not in the Digital Single Market
Strategy• Exclusive rights• E-lending• Private copying levies• Fair remuneration• Full harmonisation
• Indication of legal instruments
Although they are somewhere else …• Exclusive rights• Distribution right: Labianca, C-516/13• Digital exhaustion (implicitly): Art&Allposters, C-419/13• Linking: C More, C-279/13
• GS Media, C-160/15
• E-lending: Vereniging van Openbare Bibliotheken v Stichting Leenrecht
• Private copying levies: Copydan, C-463/12• HP Belgium, C-572/13• Egeda, C-470/14• Nokia Italia, C-110/15
In 2014 CJEU completed 69 IP cases
Cf 2013: 43 cases
Is there such thing as an age of EU copyright
reform?
All in all: who’s who?
Case law Exclusive rights
Exceptions and limitations
PolicyGeoblocking
(Exceptions and limitations)
(Possibly) ISPs
Can any parallels be drawn with new IP
lawyers?
Much to be done
2 possible approaches