“May 2021 marks twenty years since the adoption – on 22 May 2001 – of the InfoSoc Directive. The first EU directive to realize the horizontal harmonization of copyright’s main exclusive rights (reproduction, communication and making available to the public, and distribution) and related exceptions and limitations, this legislative instrument has remained the most ambitious EU harmonization effort in the copyright field for a very long time. Only the 2019 DSM Directive is comparable – in terms of ambitiousness and reach – to the 2001 InfoSoc Directive. Importantly, the (hi)story of the InfoSoc Directive is a telling example – or even a cautionary tale – of what EU harmonization initiatives entail …”
Eleonora Rosati, Happy 20th birthday, InfoSoc Directive!, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab052. Published: 8 March 2021.
First posted 2021-03-13 23:00:08
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