EU copyright harmonization and reform on the Digital Single Market, competition online, image search engines and the closing of the “framing loophole”, reform of collective rights management, respect of metadata, standardisation of image works identifiers.
Involvements with other organisations include:
In this section, you will find current News related to the above fields.
Our position papers, key statements and other resources may be found in the relevant sub-sections or in the Login Member area of the Cepic website.
EU projects -
Issues -
On February 2nd an Info Day was organized in Brussels where all the needs for RRI and SSH inputs in projects' proposals for the calls having a deadline in 2015 were presented.
IPR & Copyright -
On 14.01, Julia Reda, remaining Pirate in the European Parliament and rapporteur on the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC on Copyright in the Information Society has released her report on her website together with the list of meetings held.
IPR & Copyright -
Under the “Culture” item, the Presidency documents notes that “The cultural and creative sectors - as well as culture-related tourism which is particularly important in some Member States - are in themselves highly significant economic sectors, with enormous potential for future growth and jobs. The Digital Agenda was particularly highlighted during the debate as a key area where progress must be accelerated, through reform of copyright rules and modernisation of the Audio-visual Media Services Directive.”
IPR & Copyright -
Issues -
Since 2014, CEPIC is a member of Creativity Works! a coalition of creative and sports industries in Brussels.
Google Antitrust -
POLICY ISSUES CEPIC is involved in IP negotiations at European and international level and in technological standardisation in the visual field. Current issues include EU copyright harmonization and reform on the Digital Single Market, competition online, image search engines and the closing of the “framing loophole”, reform of collective rights management, respect of metadata, standardisation of image works identifiers. … Continued
Technology -
DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier, an identifier applied to digital objects. There are over 100 million DOI allocated worldwide to all kinds of content.
Google Antitrust -
“Given Google’s dominance in search and search advertising, and its persistent discrimination against rivals in downstream markets (such as video, maps, comparison shopping, travel, local etc), it is unsurprising that critics are concerned by what economists describe as ‘vertical leveraging’.
EU projects -
RDI, the part-EU-funded project, working to make it possible for any user to find out anything about any rights information on any online content is exceeding its expectations and is set to result in real commercial implementations.
Google Antitrust -
Statement of Ms Vestager, EU Commissoner for Competion on the next steps in the Google antitrust case.
IPR & Copyright -
Joint letter of Creativity Works! to Ms. Shaheed, special raporteur for the United Nations on how authors rights are also a human right.
