While the upload filters introduced by the EU copyright reform are being transposed into national law, this study examines how uploaders perceive copyright regulation and what further demands they have.
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Tackling news media underfunding: from copyright reform to cutting the (platform) middleman
Despite the European effort to solve the problem of press financing through copyright reform, some media outlets among other in Hungary, take their destiny in their own hands.
This article explains how copyright law and content moderation undermine the incentive for mashup producers to create mashup expressions.
Is reforming copyright law the appropriate solution to achieve the aims of the music industry?
In the last two decades, the industry has deployed endlessly the rhetoric of the “digital threat” in order to demand harsher measures against digital piracy. This paper shows that the “digital threat” discourse is based on shaky grounds.
Re-assessing jurisdictional issues, the author examines the 'monkey selfie case' from a UK and European perspective and finds that the photographer could be subject to copyright protection in Europe.
This study analyses the online discourse related to the failure of two internet policy initiatives in two democratic countries: Germany and the United States.
Copyright reform in the EU has been elusive for years. Now a new Commissioner coming from a quite different field of expertise has the mandate to cut the Gordian knot. Yet, experts like Monica Horten doubt that this will ever happen. This is why.
This paper examines how various stakeholders in the 2014 EC consultation on copyright attempted to shape the definition of user-generated content and what this means for the reform of copyright in Europe.
The Aero case encapsulates a dilemma facing courts in the US and EU – that a ruling to shut down a company, on the basis that it is unlawful under copyright law, could threaten innovation in areas such as the cloud.
