On 16 June 2015, the legal affairs committee of the European Parliament adopted the non-binding report of Pirate MEP Julia Reda on copyright reform with 23 votes in favour and two against. The report has been largely amended.
Image Providers call for a better recognition of the value of creative works online: A CEPIC delegation will meet Ms. Maria Martin-Prat, head of the copyright unit within the European Commission.
In May 2012, the European Commission announced that it had identified four areas “where Google business practices may be considered as abuses of dominance”:
The Digital Single Market Strategy sets out 16 key actions under 3 pillars which the Commission will deliver by the end of 2016
A workshop to get a glimpse into daily lives of creative professionals
The European Commission has today launched an antitrust competition inquiry into the e-commerce sector in the European Union. The sector inquiry will focus particularly on potential barriers erected by companies to cross-border online trade in goods and services where e-commerce is most widespread such as electronics, clothing and shoes, as well as digital content.
This is Michael Frendo, sometime important Malta politician, opening Cepic Congress 2008, having a say about the importance of pictures.
A bill aiming at implemeting Artist’s Resale right has been introduced in EU Congress on 16 April 2015; The ART act would bring the US in line with an international community of 75 countries who have that right in their legislation.
On 22 April 2015 Andrew Farrow presented the RDI project to the European Parliament IPR and Copyright Reform working group
Each April 26, World IP Day celebrates the human ingenuity and creativity that drives progress, benefiting mankind. And what is more universal than music, a manifestation of the innate human desire to get together and groove? That’s why the theme for this year’s World IP Day is Get Up, Stand Up. For Music.
