Digital Single Market and EU Copyright Reform 2014 – 2016
This section collects main links and documents relative to the EC initiatives relative to the establishment of a European Digital Single Market.
Resources
Coalition supporting the CEPIC complaint against Google Images
20 organisations in Europe and the USA have joined to support the CEPIC complaint at the European Commission against Google Images. Whitout their support, this bold move against the Internet giant would not have been possible.
Resources on Collective Management of Rights
This article provides links and other resources on collective management of rights.
Studies on the EC website around copyright and neighbouring rights
The European Commission regularly commissions studies to assess the impact of EC legislation. The referenced page is devoted to the application of copyright and neigbouring rights.
AGM 2014
Here you will find the minutes and the main documents of the AGM 2014.
All about Metadata
Thanks to its membership in IPTC, CEPIC has contributed to or resources on Metadata such as Metadata Handbook for photographers and picture libraries. More in this section.
Legal Pitfalls in Taking and Using Photographs
WIPO, the World intellectual Property Organization, provides the following resource of information.
Link to bibliography of publications dealing with copyright
This useful list has been compiled by HADOPI
Studies on the Creative Economy
On the background of pending copyright reforms in the EU, several studies on the “creative economy” have been published. We list a few of them here:
Global Picture Industry Survey 2012
The research group Global Stock Image Market who surveyed picture agencies around the world has made the first part of its global survey available. The survey had been sent to Congress participants in London 2012.
