uk copyright policy and the impact of eu-level reform: is there such a thing? (eleonora rosati)

Westminster Media ForumEU Copyright Reform and the Digital Single Market – Priorities and Challenges

London, 8 September 2015

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UK Copyright Policy and the Impact of EU-Level Reform:

Is there such a thing?Dr Eleonora Rosati

University of Southampton and e-LAWnora

• Is there such thing as an “EU-level reform”?

• If so, what is its impact on UK copyright?

Is there such thing as an “EU-level reform”?

The Digital Single Market Strategy

Potential areas of intervention

Something like that?

What’s not in the DSMS

• Exclusive rights

• Exceptions

• 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: Art&Allposters, C-419/13• Linking: C More, C-279/13

• GS Media, C-160/15

• Exceptions• Parody: Deckmyn, C-201/13• Digitisation: Ulmer, C-117/13• Private copying (levies): Copydan, C-463/12

• HP Belgium, C-572/13• Egeda, C-470/14• Nokia Italia, C-110/15

• E-lending: Vereniging van Openbare Bibliotheken v Stichting Leenrecht

Case law Exclusive rights

Exceptions and limitations

PolicyGeoblocking

(Exceptions and limitations)

(Possibly) ISPs

So …

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Thanks for your attention!